12/18/2022
South Africa has started deploying its army at power stations as theft and vandalism adds to the inability of state-owned utility Eskom to meet electricity demand.
The four Eskom power stations are: Majuba (4110 MW), Camden (1561 MW), Grootvlei (1180 MW), and Tututka (3654 MW).
A minimum of 10 soldiers will be assigned to each of the four plants and further deployments will be announced in due course according to the Presidency’s spokesman.
Eskom is currently removing 6,000 megawatts from the grid, resulting in outages of as long four hours two or three times a day.
It has implemented power cuts on 191 days of 2022. Supply has been constrained from its old and poorly maintained plants that continuously break down.
A side note: The SA National Defence Force is severely under-funded, under-resourced and over-stretched, and it is once again being called upon to perform a task it has not been trained for as other government departments, like the police, are unable to fulfil their mandates.
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