TimesLive reports that the police have established a multidisciplinary task team to investigate crimes committed at state-owned power utility Eskom.

This was revealed by national police commissioner Fannie Masemola, who was speaking at a media briefing by the justice, crime prevention and security cluster (JCPS) on prosecutions after the 2021 July unrest. “For Eskom specifically, we have established a multidisciplinary task team which consists of prosecutors [who are] going to look at all the crimes committed within Eskom. We will update South Africans in due course as we move on. The team has various specialists,” Masemola indicated. The power utility, which recently plunged the country into darkness by bumping load-shedding up to stage 6, has been plagued by acts of sabotage. On Thursday Eskom announced stage 4 load-shedding was be implemented on Friday, reducing to lower stages at the weekend. To add to its woes, the electricity utility was also recently faced with a crippling labour strike over wages which has since been resolved.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Amanda Khoza at BusinessLive

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