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South Africa's state-owned freight logistics firm on Thursday called on the government to urgently crack down on criminals stealing railway cables -- saying the thefts are disrupting service and severely damaging the economy.
A City Power employee is among three suspects arrested this week for cable theft and vandalism.
An explosion of crime in Buffalo City has residents living in fear as petty crimes, break-ins, robberies, violent crimes, home invasions and now kidnappings are becoming more and more common, even in supposedly safe suburban areas. Red Alert’s Brett Harvey said Beacon Bay, Nahoon, Bonnie Doon and the city centre had all experienced marked increases in break-ins in recent weeks.
Thieves who stole underground copper cables have disrupted phone connections of several homes in Taman Palm Grove, Klang, Selangor. Concrete manhole covers have been removed and placed on road shoulders while remnants of cut cables and plastic fragments litter the road verge along Jalan Setaka and Jalan Terap.
The City of Tshwane completed repairs to the Njala substation after an incident of cable theft left vast swaths of the city without electricity since the early hours of Wednesday morning.