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TimesLIVE reports that a City Power contractor has been arrested for sabotage after he was apparently found tampering with essential electricity infrastructure inside a substation on Tuesday.
City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava explained what happened: “The suspect was found inside a City Power switching substation in the Roodepoort area with working equipment. It is not clear how he gained entry, but his actions nearly killed some City Power operators and technicians who were working on the network downstream.” He went on to indicate: “While City Power operators were working on the repairs, they isolated the switching substation for safety purposes. By sheer luck they tested the cables and other infrastructure again before starting their work only to find that the cables were still live. They went back to the transmission station to check. They found the suspect inside the chamber and the community had already captured him on suspicion that he was there to vandalise and steal the equipment. He confessed that he switched on the breakers and could not produce any job card requiring him to be there nor could he explain his actions.” On Wednesday, the contractor was asked to report to head office for questioning and was arrested. He will appear in court on Thursday on tampering with essential infrastructure, vandalism and acts of sabotage charges. He is also facing a possible attempted murder charge for putting the lives of the technicians in danger.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khanyisile Ngcobo at SowetanLive
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