Police Minister Bheki Cele says they have been investigating a number of cases of sabotage at Eskom. 🕯️ ECRNewsWatch Eskom
He cited an instance where saboteurs painted rocks to pass them off as coal at bogus coal yards before they were taken to the utility for processing.
Cele addressed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday, which summoned law enforcement bodies to give details on their investigations into alleged corruption at the power producer. "Sabotage become a technical murder because those belts and machines instead of grinding coal, will grind stones and then there's a short life and the maintenance is pushed in a way that is not supposed to.""Those people who take trucks and put wrong coal and I have received the briefing that there were arrests on those matters. At one time, about 17 of them were arrested.
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