City Press reports that the police are seeking to arrest an Eskom executive with top-secret security clearance whom, they believe, may be central to engineering and staging breakdowns at targeted power stations, resulting in crippling countrywide blackouts.

High-level discussions have reportedly been taking place between ministers in the security cluster over serious allegations made against the executive. The person is suspected of having strategically coopted hand-picked engineers into a plot to facilitate breakdowns of power generation units at strategic power stations, while they profited from multiple income streams flowing from these manipulated crises. Leaked WhatsApp messages between the strategically placed Eskom executive and a forensic auditor seem to indicate a relationship between the two that had been established over some time and that they had previously successfully engineered breakdowns at targeted power stations. The messages also reveal the executive actively discussing strategies for sabotaging the entity’s power stations. The pair called the plan “operation sabotage”. It has been confirmed that the cellphone number displayed in the texts belongs to the suspected Eskom executive, who could soon be facing serious criminal charges. In its response to questions about the allegations levelled against the executive, Eskom’s spokesperson Daphne Mokwena said the organisation had no knowledge of any wrongdoing committed by the individual. “At this stage, [the executive] is not a person of interest to Eskom. We’d also like to add that [the individual] has been vetted by the SSA and cleared for top-secret security,” she stated.

• Read the full original of the astonishing report in the above regard by Nkululeko Ncana at City Press (subscriber access only)
• Read too, Top Eskom executive linked to sabotage at power stations, at BusinessLive

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