POWER THREAT Security heightened at Nelson Mandela Bay electricity substation after attempted sabotage 4 min 1 By Riaan Marais and Estelle Ellis
HELLO DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND Cable thieves or sabotage — Gqeberha left in the dark again 4 min 3 By Riaan Marais
SABOTAGE SAGA OP-ED Thornhill’s ring of spies and the long tail of impunity in Zimbabwe 12 min 5 By Stuart Doran
SECURITY THREAT Saboteurs strike French railways in coordinated attack, causing chaos hours before Olympics ceremony 3 min 8 By Reuters
SOLDIERING ON Soldiers ordered to keep safeguarding Eskom power stations from saboteurs into 2024 4 min 8 By Caryn Dolley
NEWSFLASH MPs to subpoena Brigadier Jaap Burger over Eskom corruption probe after repeated Scopa no-shows 4 min 2 By Ethan van Diemen
GROUNDUP Nelson Mandela Bay mayor suspects ‘strategic’ cable theft as ‘act of sabotage’ after weekend without power 2 min 1 By Thamsanqa Mbovane for GroundUp
POWER CRISIS Nelson Mandela Bay sabotage suspected after 23 major substations trip in seven days 3 min 6 By Estelle Ellis
POWER CRISIS Nelson Mandela Bay mayor offers R20,000 reward after cable ‘sabotage’ causes extensive electricity outages 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
ESKOM INTELLIGENCE FILES EXPLAINER Filthy seam of sabotage – how thieving cartels are plunging South Africa into darkness 9 min 26 By Ethan van Diemen
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE US says intel ‘indicates pro-Ukrainian group sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines’ 4 min 0 By Reuters
ENERGY CRISIS SANDF increasing troop deployment to Eskom power stations to combat persistent crime 3 min 5 By Ethan van Diemen
SAPS AND ESKOM IN CRISIS ‘Power crisis is empowering criminals’ — cops warn of dropped calls and becoming targets 4 min 5 By Caryn Dolley
OP-ED 'While we all desperately want to, we cannot end load shedding overnight' 4 min 7 By Cyril Ramaphosa
FROM THE ARCHIVE Catch up on these excellent South African reads from the past year 5 min 0 By Maverick Life Editors
POWER CRISIS Eskom operator hauled to court after probe into theft of diesel worth R500,000 2 min 8 By Vincent Cruywagen
ROLLING BLACKOUTS A country ‘ungovernable’ — how Eskom plans to tackle the scourge of sabotage, fraud and corruption in 2023 6 min 11 By Julia Evans
GAUTENG HEALTH Second theft in a week at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital forces surgery patients to be moved 3 min 3 By Takudzwa Pongweni
PUBLIC HEALTH Calls for attempted murder charges after theft of oxygen supply pipe at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital 2 min 5 By Takudzwa Pongweni
