After blowing the whistle on corruption, one Eskom employee received threats from a hitman.
Eskom’s battle with corruption has been well-documented, with one middle manager saying that a senior executive at the embattled power utility hired an assassin to kill her., the hit was allegedly ordered against Dorothy Mmushi, who works at Eskom’s forensics department, after she opened a criminal case with the Hawks against her coworkers.
She reported the matter to Eskom, the SAPS, and the Hawks, but nothing has been done to arrest the hitman. According to several station managers, the leading cause of Eskom’s power problems is rampant criminality, such as theft and sabotage, rather than a lack of skills or operation plans – which is often cited by energy experts as the main culprit.
The messages between the executive and their co-conspirator include discussions about strategies to sabotage multiple power stations whilst also providing evidence of successful acts of sabotage from the past.
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