On May 19 last year, as the country was jumping between load-shedding stages 3 and 4, Eskom released a statement to notify the public about suspected cases of sabotage at Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga.

A forensic investigation report into the suspected sabotage incidents, which was seen by Business Day, confirms Eskom employees maliciously damaged a generation unit at Tutuka — one of the worst performing plants in the coal fleet, just as it was being returned to service after an outage...

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