Copper cable thieves get taught at own "schools"

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Copper cable thieves get taught at own "schools"

Criminal syndicates run their own sophisticated "schools" to train thieves to steal copper cables and metal in South Africa.

That is according to Rens Bindeman, a technical advisor from the South African Revenue Protection Association (Sarpa), who recently spoke to SAfm about potential ways to clamp down on these crimes.

Copper and metal theft have been rife in South Africa in recent years, costing Eskom, municipalities, and transport agencies Transnet and Prasa billions of rand.

 

[bwana]

Criminal syndicates run their own sophisticated "schools" to train thieves to steal copper cables and metal in South Africa.

It's the 30 percenters that get fried.

 

[hj007]

Has only 1 working scanner because too expensive to have more... but lose R250m-R350m of cable a year and consequential losses of R7bn for Transnet...

 

[Creag]

May their education include getting fried like KFC in their antics!

 

[ghostRgg]

Has only 1 working scanner because too expensive to have more... but lose R250m-R350m of cable a year and consequential losses of R7bn for Transnet...

Sounds like an inside job doesn't it?

 

[flytek]

What do we need railways and electricity for anyway...time to decolonize further!

 

[GrootVoet]

I still believe ban the export of scrap metal copper until we can regulate better the scrap metal industry.

 

[hj007]

Sounds like an inside job doesn't it?

hmm I'm going with Hanlon's razor - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

 

[Eat my shorts]

No syndicate, it's a scape goat to revert attention away from government employees that create there own jobs by subotaging there own equipment

 

[TheChamp]

No syndicate, it's a scape goat to revert attention away from government employees that create there own jobs by subotaging there own equipment

And people wonder why even cable thieves see the importance of school.

 

[Heisenborg]

No syndicate, it's a scape goat to revert attention away from government employees that create there own jobs by subotaging there own equipment

Im inclined to agree. Contractors or their associates get paid a lot after hours and weekends. Steal the cable Friday evening, repair it the weekend. Rinse and repeat