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The Newsroom South Africa's Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has ruled out claims that sabotage is behind the country's worsening power cuts.
BBC World Service Beginning last Wednesday, South Africa has been experiencing its most extreme power outages since November, prompting widespread outrage on social media.
The bodies of three military officers from the United Arab Emirates - who were killed in a militant attack in Somalia - have arrived in Abu Dhabi. 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".
A statement said a fourth officer who sustained injuries during the attack on Saturday had died on arrival in the UAE. 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.
Emirati officials said the military officers had been in Somalia training local troops. The electricity minister said that the leakages had caused the simultaneous failure of nine major power units.
A Bahraini soldier was also killed in the attack, which the Islamist group al-Shabab says it carried out. Two of the power units have returned to operations, resulting in the downgrading of power cuts by one level.
In a statement mourning the killing of its soldier, the Bahrain army condemned the attack, terming it an "act of aggression". 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.
Local media report that the alleged attacker, a Somali soldier who was staying in the camp, had recently defected from al-Shabab. South Africa has been experiencing power blackouts - known as loadshedding - for several years.
The attack targeted the troops at the General Gordon Military Base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Many residents often go up to six hours a day without power.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud condemned the attack and ordered the country's security forces to conduct a “thorough and urgent investigation”.
Al-Shabab continues to carry out deadly attacks in Somalia despite the intensified military offensive against the group by federal troops since August 2022.
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