Former president Thabo Mbeki said the power crisis and load shedding we now face was manufactured as part of state sabotage.
successorstepped down as president in 2008, with Zuma later taking over as head of the country. The pair’s relationship had been strained, with Mbeki removing Zuma as his deputy in 2005 amid corruption allegations related to the Arms Deal.Quoting the findings of reports into state capture, Mbeki suggested Zuma had sabotaged the country nearly to the brink of collapse, and claimed he was “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
“How do we explain this puzzle? The only logical way to explain this is, as challenging as it might be even to comprehend, here we are dealing with a wolf in sheep’s skin”.Load shedding He also hit back at claims the government was warned about a brewing power crisis in 2008 but did nothing about it.Watch Mbeki’s comments on the power crisis:
One of the first major contracts awarded by Eskom for the building of Medupi and Kusile was to the French multinational, Alstom, to supply the Control & Instrumentation, , system which is regarded as the ‘brain’ of any power station.
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