Eskom, which supplies more than 80 of South Africas electricity, is sharpening its security to better shield the national grid and key infrastructure from acts of sabotage and theft that risk plunging the country into darkness.
The national power grid is an interconnected network that supplies electricity countrywide and is physically managed by the National Transmission Company of South Africa, a subsidiary of Eskom.
Not content with reactive security measures, the power utility is looking to infuse an element of investigative capability to clamp down on criminality and has asked private sector players to put forward proposals to provide it with tactical response operations, security business intelligence, investigative services and integrated security systems and technology.
