City Power says it has always stressed the suspicion of internal employees working with those ravaging the city’s infrastructure.

City Power says in the 1st quarter of the Financial Year, 17 mini substations were vandalised, each costs a minimum of R800 000.

According to City Power, the trio was taken into custody on separate occasions, with arrests taking place in Alexandra and Booysens.

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City Power says during the 2022/23 financial year, over 2000 cable theft incidents were recorded, resulting in approximately 278 arrests.

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All four cable theft suspects, who attempted to escape, were reportedly arrested and held at Alberton Police Station.

Three male suspects were arrested by the JMPD Operations officers for the theft of Optical Fibre, south of Johannesburg.

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When questioned, the suspect alleged that he is a City Power subcontractor and he further alluded that his wife is a City Power employee.

Eskom and municipalities remove illegal connections every day, however, they are reconnected within an hour in most cases.

The City of Tshwane said that theft and vandalism played a role in the power outages that residents experienced after the pylons collapsed.

City Power spokesperson says internal disciplinary action will be taken against the employee, and the contractors will be fired.

JMPD has nabbed five suspects, including a City Power official after they tried stealing an electrical transformer in Hillbrow

A report of a theft in progress on Kentucky Drive in Durban North, led to the arrest of a suspect caught stealing copper cables.

Police came upon a group of men loading copper cables and aluminum into a vehicle – they managed to catch one suspect after they fled on foot

Three suspects are behind bars for cable theft at four substations in the east of Johannesburg.

Cable thieves reportedly demaged an electricity pole outside Justice and Correctional Minister Ronald Lamola’s home in Pretoria.

Three suspects were so busy with steaming cables that they didn’t notice police watching them engrossed in their criminal activities

A suspect was apprehended for breaking into a substation in Alberton, instead of being submissive, he fought the arresting officer

Copper thieves almost cost the lives of patients after they stole a 10 metre Intensive Care Unit (ICU) oxygen pipe at Baragwanath

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Two brazen cable thieves were arrested by Metro Police officers in the Durban CBD after a municipal official witnessed the crime.

The City of Tshwane disconnected 800 illegal connections and removed stolen electrical infrastructure worth an estimated R500 000.

A cable thief found with locks from an electricity box and suspect found with car breaking equipment at municipal offices were arrested

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Members of a neighbourhood watch and local security chased down a suspicious vehicle only to find it occupied alleged criminals.

City Power is intensifying their war on cable theft as they make several arrests this week in Johannesburg.

Joburg’s City Power arrested cable six cable thieves at the weekend but it turns out two of them are their employees.

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Eskom has criticised the contracted security guards for stealing cables they were supposed to protect and look after.

Police swooped in and arrested seven suspects for stealing expensive municipal infrastructure costing a cool R2 million in Joburg.

Cable theft affects the provision of consistent power supply to residents and the already stretched budget to replace stolen cables.

Police allegedly used teargas and rubber bullets to disperse Dumisani Makhaye High School learners who caught a suspected cable thief.

Eight suspects were arrested for possession of R1 million worth Telkom copper cables in Jeppestown, Johannesburg.

It looks like criminals are going for anything and everything in SA! Three were spotted dismantling a traffic light so they can steal cables.

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City Power is sounding the alarm bells after two guards were shot and killed.

South African navy members have been deployed to its antenna farm facility in Cape Town to stop the ongoing vandalism and theft.

Metrorail in the Western Cape has beefed up security after thieves vandalise and steal electrical infrastructure.

Eskom had initially estimated that electricity for Bedfordview residents would be restored in four to five days, which meant this weekend

Eskom says some of its Bedfordview customers will have to do without electricity for up to five days, due to damages caused by cable theft

Police swooped on five suspects in the Free State after receiving intelligence about the gang from police in the Eastern Cape.

Eskom technicians have been trying to restore power after the Astra substation caught fire due to cable theft on Wednesday.

Two men appeared before the Durban Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing 888kg of electric cables, belonging to Eskom and Transnet.