Whyteleaf Drive News Today

Nelson Mandela Bay law enforcement officials are waging an ongoing war against criminal elements damaging and dismantling the metro’s infrastructure.

Police are not ruling out the possibility of a murder investigation after a cable was found wrapped around the neck of a suspected copper cable thief whose body was retrieved from a wastewater reactor at the Driftsands Wastewater Treatment Works in Forest Hill on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said an inquest docket had been opened for investigation after the body of a man in his 20s was pulled out of the reactor by police divers.

The war on cable theft in Nelson Mandela Bay has turned deadly after a neighbourhood watch patroller in Kariega was killed on Tuesday morning while confronting the suspected thieves.

Persistent patrols in hotspot areas paid off when a cable thief and housebreaking suspects were arrested by members of the K9 unit in Gqeberha yesterday, 24 September 2022. In the first incident, at about 05:30, two K9 members were on foot patrol with their dogs, Max and Diesel at a common spot where cable thieves

Police in Gqeberha successfully arrested a cable thief and two housebreaking suspects on Saturday with the help of 'officer' Max.

The K9 unit in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, successfully arrested a cable thief and two housebreaking suspects on Saturday.

A prolonged electricity outage at the weekend cost some Nelson Mandela Bay businesses thousands of rand, prompting them to rethink expansion plans.

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

Algoa Park residents assumed neatly dug up trenches near Whyteleaf Drive to remove underground cables was the work of Nelson Mandela Bay officials — but after the digging continued at night, three men were later arrested by the police’s K9 Unit.

Gqeberha police apprehended four suspects and confiscated seven metres of copper cable as they intensify efforts to curb cable theft in and around Nelson Mandela Bay.