{"id":55845,"date":"2023-04-16T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=55845"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:44:50","slug":"eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=55845","title":{"rendered":"ESKOM INTELLIGENCE FILES EXPLAINER: Filthy seam of sabotage \u2013 how thieving cartels are plunging South Africa into darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence reports obtained by Daily Maverick link two senior members of President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s Cabinet to four criminal cartels operating inside Eskom. This is the story of how they steal from and destroy the infrastructure meant to be keeping your lights on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2023-03-04-eskom-sabotage-cartels-power-cuts\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelligence reports obtained by Daily Maverick link two senior members of President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s Cabinet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/55845-eskom-intelligence-files-explainer-filthy-seam-of-sabotage-how-thieving-cartels-are-plunging-south-africa-into-darkness-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}