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IOL News reports that the Hawks have dealt a significant blow to copper cable theft at Eskom with the arrest of a security supervisor at Tutuka power station. This marks the eighth arrest in respect of a syndicate that infiltrated the facility's management structure.
His arrest on Wednesday brings the total number of suspects in the case to eight, including Eskom Tutuka Power Station principal inspector Refilwe Motloung, her brother, and her brother-in-law, who were arrested in October 2024. The case began on 30 September 2024 when a provincial traffic officer on duty at the Kinross weighbridge stopped a bakkie loaded with copper cables. The officer chased the vehicle and, in the process, the driver lost control, and the vehicle overturned. The Hawks’ Secunda Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit was called to the scene, where they arrested three males transporting the cables. A multidisciplinary team including Crime Intelligence, SAPS Visible Policing, Eskom Security, and Fidelity Security, launched a broader investigation, which led them to a farm where an Eskom truck had dropped off a consignment of copper cables. The operation then shifted to Tutuka from where the cables were allegedly stolen. The latest suspect, a 40-year-old security supervisor, was taken into custody on Wednesday and was expected to appear in the Standerton Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Wendy Dondolo at IOL News
- Read too, Eskom supervisor implicated in copper cable theft syndicate, at Sunday World
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