Crime intelligence ‘investigating sabotage’ as possible reason for load shedding
The police’s crime intelligence unit is investigating whether the rolling electricity blackouts are the result of sabotage by Eskom employees.
Senior sources within crime intelligence have confirmed to News24 that there is currently a project running to establish whether the outages are deliberate and the work of aggrieved workers.
One operative said the project is also looking at whether the situation could get worse around the election period in order to leverage their position.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan told the media on Tuesday there were suspicions of sabotage during instances of load shedding in 2018, but that they have not yet uncovered evidence of sabotage in 2019.
The country has been suffering under load shedding since the beginning of the year.