NUM wants Ramaphosa to produce evidence of sabotage
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide evidence of the sabotage he claims has occurred at Eskom.
On Wednesday, Ramaphosa told reporters a saboteur had tampered with one of the instruments on the Eskom system which resulted in the loss of 2000 megawatts.
He said this, along with generation unit breakdowns, power station technical glitches and wet coal had necessitated the current spell of rotational load shedding.
He had earlier met with the parastatal's management and board about the power crisis.
Ramaphosa said Eskom must probe the sabotage and rope in the SAPS and the intelligence service to get to the bottom of it.
NUM national spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu says the sabotage claim is an excuse which is getting old, adding that it has been used before to cover up Eskom and government's failures.
"If there is such sabotage we want him to produce evidence on the sabotage that he's talking about, because if you remember when our members were on strike at Eskom. Eskom kept on saying that members were sabotaging power stations when those power stations are a national key point that are heavily guarded, so the president must produce evidence that there is such sabotage," he said.
