Eskom releases photos of sabotage - says it nearly caused stage 6 power cuts

[r00igev@@r]

Found the angle grinder (it was bought from Chancellor House Hardware Supplies). Comrade discount applied.

 

[porchrat]

Any area can be secured.

Fencing, motion sensors, and an alarm system for motion detection.

maybe a few of those South Korean automated turrets with AI that can recognise humans...

 

[brilliantt]

sabotage, seems suspicious,
as how do we know it wasn't some scrap metal thieves that cut the wrong cables.

or is this too deliberate to be them, just thinking outside the box.

De Ruyter finds it suspicious that nothing was stolen. I think it is sabotage.

 

[ToxicBunny]

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It's not inside the power station though. It states in the article that the pylon was not on eskom property.

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At a guess, the yellow highlight is the conveyor... Power probably runs along a similar route?

Ahhh I just assumed it was all on their property, even though I read the article and missed that little gem.

 

[brilliantt]

This is a game changer for me. I shudder to think of it, but I might be voting for Cyril in the next elections. The Zuma people are determined to collapse his government at all costs, including destroying the country and its economy in the process. I hope they fail like they did in July.

 

[dualmeister]

This is simple, Eskom is a key resource and power is critical infra.

You damage it in a planned manner its Terrorism - and should be treated as such. I expect to see the national guard (or whatever we call it) getting involved as well. Squash it while its fresh.

This in not a Michael Bay movie

 

[ToxicBunny]

This is a game changer for me. I shudder to think of it, but I might be voting for Cyril in the next elections. The Zuma people are determined to collapse his government at all costs, including destroying the country and its economy in the process. I hope they fail like they did in July.

They will fail even more spectacularly than they did in July.

All they really managed to do in July was to wreck the poor peoples lives, and to make sure that all the private entities have upped their game and plans to handle this shyte. Most big entities now have contingency plans, and systems in place to deal with this type of thing now, and more than likely in a not so pleasant fashion.

 

[Sinbad]

This is a game changer for me. I shudder to think of it, but I might be voting for Cyril in the next elections. The Zuma people are determined to collapse his government at all costs, including destroying the country and its economy in the process. I hope they fail like they did in July.

You do realise that you won't be voting for cyril. You'll be voting for both of them.

 

[Henlift boogie]

Who would cut a solid steel bar and think it is a cable. And just leave. THINK man. This is the beginning, and at the end look like Spoornet. Just the concrete ruins standing.

 

[PsyWulf]

This is simple, Eskom is a key resource and power is critical infra.

You damage it in a planned manner its Terrorism - and should be treated as such. I expect to see the national guard (or whatever we call it) getting involved as well. Squash it while its fresh.

It took armed resistance forces firing live ammo at mobs of armed looters to even stir a reaction from the chiefs and get a military deployment,not even a burning province got a reaction

 

[PsyWulf]

Found the angle grinder (it was bought from Chancellor House Hardware Supplies). Comrade discount applied.
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Supplier of broken boilers for Eskom was a hitachi company isn't it?

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1461726669086117888

 

[Sapphiron]

This article about Venezuela's electricity problems and blackout seems very familiar...

Venezuela’s electricity emergency swallows up tens of millions of dollars

A decade of blackouts, water shortages and damage to power plants have left Venezuela’s electrical network in a dire state

dialogochino.net

Corruption. Incompetence. Neglect. Political meddling. Same old...
Viva Socialism Viva!!

It's not socialism, it's criminalism in an ineptocracy.

 

[Mekon]

Some people will burn the country to the ground and happily rule over the ashes. The ANC are pathetic disgraceful camel excrement

 

[r00igev@@r]

Supplier of broken boilers for Eskom was a hitachi company isn't it?

Yes. Damn dishonourable Japs.

 

[PaulMurkin]

Yes. Damn dishonourable Japs.

Likely Japanese in name only....

 

[PaulMurkin]

Some people will burn the country to the ground and happily rule over the ashes. The ANC are pathetic disgraceful camel excrement

Of course they are, and they don't want the sun to shine on you either. His excellency Ramadingdong needs all the sun he can get... maybe then he'll remember where his iPad is

 

[upup]

So is this power line inside the power station or mine area.

If inside the yard, they should have the station manager responsible. I have heard of a manager [at a mine] who walk pass places on his mine, where security should have notice him, they were fired on the spot. He walk into offices and saw personnel sitting and not working, they got fired the next day.

Now you catch a guy stealing diesel from say Eskom, and give him R5000 bail, and Cyril is not shocked.

 

[Iwojima]

Colour me unsurprised. The frequency and coincidental nature of the failures clearly pointed to deliberate acts of sabotage.

No doubt there is still a significant criminal element that is acting out because it doesn't want to be the next to be uncovered.

If you want to know who the puppetmasters are just look at who has been so vocal about the current Eskom leadership of late.

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

It's not socialism, it's criminalism in an ineptocracy.

so the nationalization of many of its sectors is just what exactly?