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Brian_G said:
Has anyone seen the apparent article / thread about this? (News24 has paywalled it)

www.news24.com

High-ranking Eskom exec linked to sabotage at power stations | City Press

The executive allegedly has top-secret security clearance, and has been using engineers to facilitate breakdowns, so he and others could profit from the crises.
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TIA for any linky
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Eskom executive linked to sabotage at power stations

Police are looking to arrest an Eskom executive with top-secret security clearance who they believe may be central to engineering and staging breakdowns at targeted power stations.

City Press reported the executive, who has top-secret security clearance, is accused of appointing specific engineers to help ensure there are breakdowns at certain power stations. The engineers and the executive then profit from the money needed to fix the breakdowns.


The newspaper had an interview with police minister Bheki Cele, who said leaked WhatsApp messages were part of the investigation.

“My guys heard the executive talking to me and said this was someone of high interest because an individual in such a high-ranking position must know more than that person was telling us,” said Cele.

Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said in November that sabotage of Eskom equipment and coal syndicates were among the criminal activities contributing to one stage of load-shedding.

He said some stations experienced mysterious failures and oil leakages.

De Ruyter said at the Camden power station, when they apprehended a suspect, they found the motive for the sabotage. The breaking down of equipment was to secure more work from Eskom.

“This is a pattern. We found it at other power stations as well. At Tutuka, for example, people deliberately break equipment because that results in a maintenance call-out which puts money into the pockets of the maintenance contractors,” he said.

Also in November, Sunday Times reported a forensic report had lifted the lid on wholesale sabotage of infrastructure by unscrupulous contractors and employees.
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Brian_G said:
Can't believe that Millennial-type concept, based on the ideal that we'd be getting rid of greedy governments. Problem is that all groups & communities need.... governance.
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Problem is certain classes of the country want everything for free, and they do not want to work for it.

Stuff that into your pipe and smoke it.
 
The_Librarian said:
Problem is certain classes of the country want everything for free, and they do not want to work for it.

Stuff that into your pipe and smoke it.
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Smaller communities would help that. Can you see any national govt., anywhere, ever allowing their power to be so diluted?

We need something like the Swiss Canton system, a lot more independence for provincial-type areas but still under the national umbrella which also has its advantages.
 
Brian_G said:
Smaller communities would help that. Can you see any national govt., anywhere, ever allowing their power to be so diluted?

We need something like the Swiss Canton system, a lot more independence for provincial-type areas but still under the national umbrella which also has its advantages.
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this
 
Brian_G said:
Smaller communities would help that. Can you see any national govt., anywhere, ever allowing their power to be so diluted?

We need something like the Swiss Canton system, a lot more independence for provincial-type areas but still under the national umbrella which also has its advantages.
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Yup. As someone said, name a world famous Swiss politician? You can't, which is how it should be!
 
Kung Fu Porkchop said:
Eskom executive linked to sabotage at power stations
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results in a maintenance call-out which puts money into the pockets of the maintenance contractors
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You have 44k employees yet not one able to fix anything.
Stop outsourcing everything to cadres. Having an employee has an incentive to make sure everything is running to keep his job. A cadre contractor only has one incentive, make sure everything is broken all the time so they can loot more
 
Temujin said:
You have 44k employees yet not one able to fix anything.
Stop outsourcing everything to cadres. Having an employee has an incentive to make sure everything is running to keep his job. A cadre contractor only has one incentive, make sure everything is broken all the time so they can loot more
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It's very deeply entrenched, but maybe this is a good start now, we can only hope.

Thing is it's the African way as far as bribing and "sharing" goes. It's in everything these days.
And not just here - I heard in Sydney that if you wash your own car you're disliked for preventing someone in the community from earning.
 
Temujin said:
You have 44k employees yet not one able to fix anything.
Stop outsourcing everything to cadres. Having an employee has an incentive to make sure everything is running to keep his job. A cadre contractor only has one incentive, make sure everything is broken all the time so they can loot more
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If the EAF of Lethabo (74%) could be replicated across the entire coal fleet, we wouldn't have any LS (maybe Stage 1/2 in peak winter).
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit said:
If the EAF of Lethabo (74%) could be replicated across the entire coal fleet, we wouldn't have any LS (maybe Stage 1/2 in peak winter).
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The last numbers I saw showed Lethabo at 62% and about number 4 on the coal fleet.

This article also shows that they're not top
dailyinvestor.com

Eskom’s coal-fired power station breakdown lie

Eskom’s latest energy availability factor (EAF) data reveals that the power utility has been misleading South Africans about the true reasons for breakdowns and load-shedding.
dailyinvestor.com dailyinvestor.com
 
Brian_G said:
Smaller communities would help that. Can you see any national govt., anywhere, ever allowing their power to be so diluted?

We need something like the Swiss Canton system, a lot more independence for provincial-type areas but still under the national umbrella which also has its advantages.
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That's basically federalism...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
That's basically federalism...
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There's similarities, but it's a further improvement on the self-governance side. More like Confederalism, though the Swiss are quite different from what the US version of that was.

@lexity seems to know a lot of detail if he's around.
 
R13... said:
The last numbers I saw showed Lethabo at 62% and about number 4 on the coal fleet.

This article also shows that they're not top
dailyinvestor.com

Eskom’s coal-fired power station breakdown lie

Eskom’s latest energy availability factor (EAF) data reveals that the power utility has been misleading South Africans about the true reasons for breakdowns and load-shedding.
dailyinvestor.com dailyinvestor.com
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That article is from 6 weeks ago and it says the number I quoted:

The EAF data further showed that Tutuka (26%), rife with corruption and mismanagement, has a much worse EAF than other power stations of the same age, like Letabo (74%) and Matimba (75%).
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Did it really decrease to 62% within 6 weeks?

Note that Grootvlei and Camden are planned to be shutdown within the next few years and Camden's power output is tiny compared to the big beasts like Majudba, Medupi, Lethabo and Kusile.
 
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