Medupi explosion, but the lights are still on? [Letter to the editor] 

By the looks of it, Eskom’s Medupi Unit 4 explosion on Sunday 8 August could cost up to R2billion, and take more than two years to repair – on the taxpayer’s time and dime…

One of the news agencies even quoted an expert saying that it would cost ten times that. Weirdly enough, when the Medupi blast occurred, this massive dry-cooled coal-fired power station in Lephalale, the world’s fourth largest… it was not followed by load-shedding. What’s up with that?

I am glad to hear that no injuries were reported… but how can we believe it? There was a massive explosion, and we weren’t dumped into any load shedding level... Odd don’t you think? Usually when the wind changes direction or the cat washes its ears, there’s load shedding… but Ripley’s believe it or not… no load shedding! 

Makes me wonder what contribution Medupi really makes to the power grid…?
And then Eskom went and opened a criminal case of malicious property damage… against some of their own employees! What on earth is going on there? ‘Well, if we can blame someone… then all is well…’ – is this a good enough strategy? 

I am no engineer… but I don’t think any right-thinking person would intentionally blow up a generator or anything else for that matter at a power station without the intention to die as a kamikaze. O! and wait for it… Eskom said they opened a criminal case, but they ‘didn’t mean’ that it’s necessarily sabotage. 

That brings me back to… What is really going on there? 
Conspiracy Theorist