JOHANNESBURG - Community members in Reiger Park said that they were outraged, following the theft of copper cables in the area.
On Wednesday night, a group of thieves started digging up the cables on Goude Hoop Avenue, where a police station was situated.The residents said that the theft of the electricity cables had been taking place for the past 18 months.- READ: 17 INCIDENTS OF CABLE THEFT AND VANDALISM RECORDED IN ONE WEEKENDA community member, who wished to stay anonymous, said that their challenge was that the police were barely doing anything.
“I can say on the record, they told me personally that they are afraid of them. So, as a community where does that leave us when [the police] can't help?" Another resident, who ran the local centre for people with disabilities, said that cable theft in the area severely impacted the work that they did for the community.
“We are working with disabled people. Last week, the whole week, we didn’t have electricity. We had to throw away all the food because we get food from shops, and so, to feed those people."
But the same community saw the people who were digging that cable and come cry foul plau
Here you are, may these vandals go to high security prison for 15 years, no parole.
Don't spread false news. Apparently these were old cables that were replaced and these people got permission to remove them that is why the police are not doing anything.
Madiba must be so proud of how things turned out in the rainbow nation...
Police where there and did nothing about, but they did nothing. This country it’s a joke 😭
Zero policing zero consequences.
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