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South Africa's Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has ruled out claims that sabotage is behind the country's worsening power cuts. | |
Beginning last Wednesday, South Africa has been experiencing its most extreme power outages since November, prompting widespread outrage on social media. | |
The secretary general of the ruling ANC party Fikile Mbalula on Saturday alleged that the intensified power cuts were "clear sabotage" and called for "strong extra security measures". | |
Mr Ramokgopa rejected the claims on Sunday, saying that the extreme power outages had been caused by leaking boiler tubes, which are used in the generation of electricity in power plants. | |
The electricity minister said that the leakages had caused the simultaneous failure of nine major power units. | |
Two of the power units have returned to operations, resulting in the downgrading of power cuts by one level. | |
The remaining seven units are expected to resume operations early this week, but Mr Ramokgopa said that the biggest relief to the ongoing loadshedding is expected in March. | |
South Africa has been experiencing power blackouts - known as loadshedding - for several years. | |
Many residents often go up to six hours a day without power. | |
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