Power utility Eskom says that is launching an investigation into the conduct of one of its employees after the shutdown of Camden Power Station due to demineralised water contamination last week.
Camden power station in Mpumalanga was pulled offline this past week after a senior technician ‘opened the wrong valve’ and ended up contaminating the plant’s demineralised water supply.
The company said that it is looking into the incident, and the technician in question has been suspended pending further investigations. “The events that unfolded there [at Camden power station] a few days ago is clearly an example of… let’s call it ‘resistance’ to be euphemistic,” he said. He added that since Andre De Ruyter took office around three years ago in a bid to root out corruption, the stats clearly show a sharp increase in sabotage cases within Eskom.
“These people don’t give a damn about the people of Soweto and African working class, and they want De Ruyter out of the way so they can re-establish a very lucrative corruption network that has been embedded into Eskom,” said Harvey.Harvey also noted that the key is in the timing of recent events, as there are clear signs that sabotage at Eskom is intesifying in the run-up to the ANC’s national elective conference in December.
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