South Africa is now experiencing its most extreme power outages since November but Electricity Minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has ruled out claims that sabotage is behind the country’s worsening power cuts.
The sabotage claims were made by the secretary general of the ruling ANC party, Fikile Mbalula.
But Ramokgopa rejected the claims on the premise that extreme power outages had been caused by leaking boiler tubes, which are used in the generation of electricity in power plants.
The electricity minister said that the leakages had caused the simultaneous failure of nine major power units.
South Africa has been experiencing power blackouts – known as loadshedding – for several years with Many residents experiencing upto six hours of power cuts.
