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The Star reports that while power outages continue to be a headache to hundreds of Johannesburg residents, municipal utility City Power attributes this challenge to theft and vandalism.
This past weekend, City Power made a breakthrough with 15 arrests of suspected cable thieves, nine of whom were security officers contracted by the municipal utility. City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava said the security officers were among some of the internal collaborators that City Power had been tracking. The suspects were nabbed between Friday and Saturday morning during a multi-pronged joint operation between the entity’s Security Risk Management and law enforcement agencies led by SAPS Essential Infrastructure Task Team. The first three suspects were caught at a scrap metal dealership in the Joburg CBD. Leads were followed up on and later in the evening three more men were arrested in the inner-city along the underground tunnels. In Reuven at City Power head offices, two security guards were handcuffed after cable that was found in their car ready to be taken out of the salvage yard. Seven other guards were also captured during the intelligence operation. “City Power finds the involvement of contracted security officers particularly worrying, because these are the people that have been entrusted with the duty of safeguarding our infrastructure,” said Mashava. City Power cautioned internal staff that the net was closing in on everyone who was involved in the destructive business of vandalism. “This warning goes to City Power employees and those contracted to do work on behalf of the entity. The entity will spare no attempt in making sure that everyone arrested, face the full might of the law,” Mashava warned.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ntombi Nkosi at The Star
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