Reports of sabotage within Eskom’s power stations have dwindled since December 2022.
Mteto Nyati says assertions that sabotage by Eskom’s power station staff was a key cause of load-shedding are “highly exaggerated” and that the utility now only sees sabotage on a small scale., the board chair said the primary concern regarding sabotage is protecting the conveyor belts delivering coal from mines directly to Eskom power stations.
“We’ve been able to catch a few people trying to do that and take some of those through the court processes,” the Sunday Times quoted Nyati as saying. “This malicious act caused all the oil to drain out from the bearing, thus damaging the bearing which, in turn, prevented the mills from operating optimally,” Eskom said.Sabotage became a major contributor to unplanned breakdowns at the power utility under De Ruyter and former COO Jan Oberholzer’s tenure.
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