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Yesterday, police at Umlazi conducted a multi-disciplinary operation focusing on known hotspots. During the operation police conducted a search at scrapyard in D Section, Umlazi. During the search police officers discovered two money counting machines, truck batteries, 74 kg copper cables, electronic scales, 461kg of lead cable insulators, 364kg of mixed copper pipes with burnt

Intentional cable cutting and theft have been a rampant issue nationwide affecting thousands of Filipino households, depriving them of internet service, cable TV connection, and at times, power supply. With households affected from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, this malicious crime has been a majo

Theft of copper cables have dire negative consequences which poses a serious threat to our infrastructure and impacts largely on service delivery. Continuous efforts are made by Gqeberha’s K9 unit and the relevant authorities to arrest perpetrators of such theft. In three separate incidents in the last two days, four suspects were arrested and in

The four entities are at the coalface of economic sabotage and together experience a staggering 54 000 incidents of attacks on infrastructure annually, which costs billions.

The City of Cape Town says it will do everything in its power to stop those hell-bent on undermining efforts to deliver services.

Just days after it was reported that Buffalo City Metro is losing millions of rand to cable thieves who rip apart crucial metro infrastructure in organised heists, city authorities made a breakthrough when three alleged perpetrators were nabbed this week.

By monitoring the crime events reported on CPF WhatsApp groups in Carletonville, the DA has been able to build a database of cable theft incidents.

It said the manager is part of the eight suspects arrested in separate incidents for cable theft between Friday and Sunday night.

This comes after some residents complained about being without power for days on end.

A 65-year-old man was arrested in the Western Cape in connection with the theft of Telkom cables worth R50,000