Cable Theft News Today

western scotland and northern ireland. a few spots of result for the hebrides and shetland this afternoon. its quite mild, temperatures ranging between eight and 10 degrees, some of the higher temperatures where it is cloudy. in the south of the uk meanwhile, with clear skies its a cold night. a widespread frost across most of england and wales with temperatures down as low as —6 in the countryside but as well as that we are looking at some fog which will become quite dense and wides...

Extensive work will be needed to restore electricity in the inner city after the cables caught fire underground, Johannesburg City Power says.

Residents of Braamfontein, the CBD and Parktown are without electricity and smoked out by the underground cable fire in Johannesburg's inner city that broke out in the cable tunnels on Tuesday night.

KLUANG: Two men have been arrested by police for allegedly stealing cables at a village in Simpang Renggam here.

IPOH: Four men have been arrested for suspected involvement in a cable theft here over a week ago.

The Temba wastewater treatment works incurred damage worth about R400,000 due to two incidents of cable theft and vandalism of panels this week, the City of Tshwane said on Thursday.

A City of Ekurhuleni employee was one of three people arrested in a truck carrying stolen electrical cable worth about R1.2m in Alberton on Tuesday.

An alleged cable theft suspect was taken to hospital after he caught on fire while trying to steal cables.

KZN police say two suspects had a hard time explaining to compliance inspectors how R3 million in Eskom and Prasa copper cables landed in their hands.

A total of 3 003 cable theft suspects were apprehended from July 2017 to December 2023, with 523 successful convictions.