LETTER: Economic sabotage
Culprits at Eskom must face 25 years in jail
12 December 2019 - 14:48
If they find the culprit who turned off a switch at Eskom causing billions of rand damage to the economy, presuming it were malicious what crime would they be charged under and what sentence would they get?
Instead of charging perpetrators of cable theft, burning trains and other acts which cause economic damage to the whole country and everyone in it with theft or malicious damage to property the authorities should legislate a crime called something like economic sabotage which would carry severe penalties such as 25 years in prison...
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