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City Power says most of the concerning incidents of cable theft have occurred in suburbs supplied by its Randburg service delivery centre.

Tenants started to attack journalists and technicians as the police pulled out of the operation, apparently without warning.

According to Mashava, the suspect was found inside a City Power switching substation in the Roodepoort area with operational equipment.

City Power said there has been at least 100 incidents (a minimum of 3 incidents per day) where mini substations were vandalised,

A massive spike in vandalism has been noted, with a minimum of three incidents per day around Roodepoort where mini substations are vandalised.

The power entity said that incidents of cable theft had been increasing at night during rolling blackouts from Eskom.

A Johannesburg resident was shocked and injured on Wednesday while attempting to restore power to a tripped substation in Crosby.

Two City Power security guards arrested for cable theft

Gauteng provincial head major general Ebrahim Kadwa spoke to Eyewitness News on the sidelines of the inaugural Johannesburg energy indaba.

Suspects pretending to be City Power staff steal transformer worth R600k By Botho Molosankwe Share TWO men posing as City Power employees broke into the power utility’s transformer substation and stole a transformer worth R600 000 in Selby, south of Joburg. The theft of the transformer plunged the area into darkness for at least three days. City Power’s Isaac Mangena said the theft happened on February 2, “when at least two criminals broke into one of our transformer chambers at Village D...