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The South African National Defence Force says their deployment at Eskom power stations will reduce acts of criminality at the power utility.

SANDF members are being deployed to Camden, Thuthuka, Majuba and Grootvlei power stations in Mpumalanga.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the deployment of the members at the power utility over the weekend. It is reported that more than a dozen people have been arrested and charged for sabotage and theft at Eskom. These acts have also been blamed for rolling the blackouts. SANDF Spokesperson, Andries Mahapa, says the move is part of Operation Prosper aimed at protecting critical infrastructure.

“The South African National Defence Force has been deployed to `bolster the protection of the Eskom critical infrastructure for the protection of the power generation, the term of the deployment is currently unknown as it will be informed by the intelligence agencies on whether threats are persisting or getting less as we continue”

Meanwhile, Security and Defence Analyst Helmut Heitman, says that the decision by power utility Eskom to deploy soldiers for the

 

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What a yoke what do they know about the challenges and the corruption going on there not even the security guards knew what was going on

How so because eskom complains of generator breakdowns. Technicians are supposed to be deployed to service generators not soldiers.

SOUTH AFRICAN White syndicates are using foreigners to do their dirty job.Eskom doesn't want to use establish black business for procurement White want a lion share they don't want 50/50parity at eskom even at Head Office that where the problem lies KEEP THIS IN MIND ALL THE TIME

But eskom must suspend security or is a job creation

Great but what about covering the National load rotation hitting certain municipalities such as MsunduziM? They have just shared 21/12/2022 LOAD REDUCTION Eskom has implemented National load Reduction and will directly switch off Municipalites in line with their schedule

For what exactly 🤔

We are not taken serious

How will SANDF know when someone is messing with ' Eskom things ' 🤔 These criminals aren't exactly using weapons.

Lol… if they were serious about solving the problem engineers would be deployed

Why aren't they deploying SAPS and Engineers to fix Eskom? SANDF is for military not that. Borders would a better deployment.

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