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Fin24 reports that Transnet has warned that a new spike in cable theft incidents has claimed the life of a security guard and has critically constrained coal supply to the Majuba Power Station by rail.
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) delivers a maximum of three coal trains to the Majuba Power Station per day, in line with the capacity of a portion of the line which is owned by Eskom and feeds directly into the power plant. Previously, TFR could run six trains a day on this line. It has, however, been severely damaged by the theft of overhead cables and critical overhead track equipment. Eskom has been unable to restore the overhead track equipment, the rail operator said. Now, a new spike in cable theft incidents on the Container Corridor and in the Delmas-Ogies area has made even the three trains per day impossible to achieve. The challenge comes on top of severe operational issues facing Eskom, which continued to implement stage 5 load shedding on Wednesday as power demand outstripped available supply. Further highlighting the security challenge facing Transnet, on Tuesday two guards were attacked during a cable theft incident in the Sentrarand area, in which one guard was killed and another was injured. Sentrarand forms part of the Central Corridor, which serves as crucial junction feeding into all corridors – incidents in this region have devastating ripple effects across the network.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisa Steyn at Fin24
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