Lephalele, Limpopo - Workers and construction managers at Eskom’s Medupi site claim that they have been subject to a reign of terror, violence and intimidation over the past three weeks amid a strike marked by xenophobic demands that have all severely curtailed work.
These events also mean that the completion of the new power station in Limpopo will be delayed even further.
Sources at the Medupi site told Business Report that in the past three weeks, three busses were torched in Lephalale and a bus driver, who was trying to transport workers to the site, was attacked and ended up in hospital in a coma. Managers of the construction companies at the site have been threatened with death for going to work.
“We are living in hell, people just go around beating others up and there is nothing we can do,” a manager of one of the companies said.
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