Ndlambe and the district head of police have welcomed the arrest of four people in connection with the theft of electrical cable from a seawater extraction unit feeding reverse osmosis water plants serving coastal towns in the…
The electricity to households in four streets at Station Hill has been restored – this after residents had endured four weeks without power, thanks to cable thieves hitting the sub-station in Kivido Street. At least three residents told…
A knife, screwdriver, pliers and a backpack scattered near a man found dead near an electrical pole in Makhanda last week were signs he had probably been trying to remove an electrical cable. South African Police Service spokesperson…
Cable thieves could spend 30 years in jail The South African Police Service has appealed to community members to report suspicious activity in their neighbourhoods. In response to a query from Talk of the Town regarding cable theft in and…
Cable theft in and around Port Alfred is costing around R9 000 a day. This shocking figure was revealed in an exclusive interview with Ndlambe Municipality’s infrastructure director Dr Noluthando Vithi this week. While every effort has…
“A collective sense of ownership is one of the most important elements of community building. “We at Eskom believe that this should be a factor when communities think of the infrastructure we use to distribute electricity. It is for our…
Cable theft was the cause of Thursday’s power outage which affected the Port Alfred CBD and parts of the West Bank. CDR Electrical, the electrical contractor appointed by Ndlambe Municipality in place of Manelec, restored power to most…
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) lost R364m in 2019 through looting of its infrastructure and burning of trains along 22‚000km of tracks targeted by criminals. But this week authorities struck back at cable thieves in…
