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Its understood four of the suspects were caught digging up cables around the Nasrec area over the weekend.

Load-shedding, Mr President, is the No 1 problem facing the country. It should be your absolute priority

The pair was nabbed by the polices economical infrastructure task team on Tuesday.

The arrest of a scrapyard manager in Johannesburg comes as government plans to ban scrap metal exports for the next six months in a bid to curb cable theft.

The state rail agency says since April, it has cancelled almost 400 export coal trains due to security incidents.

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel that this was part of the government’s implementation of new measures to restrict and regulate the trade in waste metals to limit damage to public infrastructure and the economy.

Weve seen the theft of infrastructure, such as copper and power cables, resulting in billions of dollars in damage. gold and platinum are illegally mined or stolen and sold illicitly. this is a dismal state of affairs for you as minister ofjustice. so, in a nutshell, what are you doing to tackle all this? yes, there is work happening with the npa and the south african police where there is a unit dedicated to respond to the issue of theft of copper cables. as you look now, there have been lots o...

This is a dismal state of affairs for you as minister ofjustice. so, in a nutshell, what are you doing to tackle all this? yes, there is work happening with the npa and the south african police where there is a unit dedicated to respond to the issue of theft of copper cables. as you look now, there have been lots of sentences that have been handed over by our courts to various criminals who played their role in cable theft. some of them have been sentenced to more than 15 years, some ten years. ...

Of infrastructure such as copper and power cables, resulting in billions of dollars in damage. gold and platinum are illegally mined or stolen and sold illicitly. this is a dismal state of affairs for you as minister ofjustice. so, in a nutshell, what are you doing to tackle all this? yes, there is work happening with the npa and the south african police where there is a unit dedicated to respond to the issue of theft of copper cables. as you look now, there have been lots of sentences that have...

Illegally mined or stolen and sold illicitly. this is a dismal state of affairs for you as minister ofjustice. so, in a nutshell, what are you doing to tackle all this? yes, there is work happening with the npa and the south african police where there is a unit dedicated to respond to the issue of theft of copper cables. as you look now, there have been lots of sentences that have been handed over by our courts to various criminals who played their role in cable theft. some of them have been sen...