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News24 reports that on Tuesday, City of Tshwane employees were held hostage in Mamelodi by a group of residents.
According to City spokesperson Selby Bokaba, residents were angry after there was a trip at the Mamelodi 2 substation. The trip occurred just after load shedding because of the grid being overloaded, Bokaba said. "Teams were on site attending to a service interruption when some community members that are serviced by the Mamelodi Hinterland Substation held the City’s System Operators hostage and forced them to switch off electricity at Nellmapius Ext 22 and 24. The petrified officials had no choice but… to comply for safety reasons." Tshwane Metro Police Department officers who came to the workers' rescue were also chased away. "A decision was taken to hastily withdraw all the teams from sites in Mamelodi for safety reasons, to prevent the community from forcing them to perform further illegal operations," Bokaba said. After a meeting with local councillors on Wednesday, the City agreed that the workers could go back to the area. Bokaba added that City workers were increasingly being targeted in areas like Nellmapius and in parts of Soshanguve and Mamelodi.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tebogo Monama at News24
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