Durban man bust making traditional pots with ‘stolen’ Transnet and municipal copper

[schumi]

An illegal scrap metal dealer in Ntuzuma, north of Durban, was found manufacturing traditional three-legged pots using copper and cables allegedly belonging to the eThekwini municipality and Transnet.

The discovery was part of a joint operation by police, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA, Transnet, Telkom and Eskom.

“The task team received a tip-off and conducted a raid at a house in Ntuzuma. Stripped copper cables were discovered in the yard,” the municipality said.

“While searching the premises, a R5 rifle and round of ammunition were also found.”

More at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...ts-with-stolen-transnet-and-municipal-copper/

 

[ForceFate]

"Traditional" pots have no legs.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

"Traditional" pots have no legs.

Traditional pots are made of cast iron

An illegal scrap metal dealer in Ntuzuma, north of Durban, was found manufacturing very untraditional three-legged pots using copper and cables allegedly belonging to the eThekwini municipality and Transnet.

Fixed

 

[ponder]

"Traditional" pots have no legs.

They look like colonialist pots and I don't see the copper?

 

[ForceFate]

They look like colonialist pots and I don't see the copper?

Aluminium cables perhaps?

 

[RedViking]

Does he get the same price as the tenders?

Otherwise he is being ripped off.

 

[Gordon_R]

They look like colonialist pots and I don't see the copper?

IMO those pots look like cast aluminium. Nowadays a lot of conductive cables are made from aluminium instead of copper. Copper would never be cast into pots.

 

[IceQB]

Looks like they stole a bunch of CCA Cat5/6 cable

 

[Defonotaltaccount]

Where is the traditional metal working skills which were around before Jan ?
Ah so they just didnt want to call them potjie pots, gotcha.
Bronze age when ?

 

[DreamKing]

transformation

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

IMO those pots look like cast aluminium. Nowadays a lot of conductive cables are made from aluminium instead of copper. Copper would never be cast into pots.

Looks like they stole a bunch of CCA Cat5/6 cable

So the pot has a lot of USPs ..... its light, conductive, non traditional, and comes with wi - fi

 

[TelkomUseless]

“While searching the premises, a R5 rifle and round of ammunition were also found.”

To protect his pots from looters ?

 

[6spdmanual]

 

[The Trutherizer]

This type of "industry" makes it seem some people think they are living in a modern Garden of Eden, where the fruit trees are those poles next to the road that grow these long narrow interconnected fruits with useful materials inside.

Egads! The implied... fatalism(?) of somehow thinking they are not personally affected, negatively, by the South African infrastructure struggle which they perpetuate! But nah. All that seems to matter to some is that baby wants a new pair of shoes But then... Just have a look at our politics Selfish, selfish, selfish.

 

[Polymathic]

They look like colonialist pots and I don't see the copper?

Bantu people brought metallurgy with them from West Africa. That area entered the iron age around the 5th century BC.

 

[konfab]

While searching the premises, a R5 rifle and round of ammunition were also found.”

But I thought only licenced firearm owners could have these guns.

 

[mojoman]

But I thought only licenced firearm owners could have these guns.

" round of ammunition"...
Sounds like the guy is a terrorist...

 

[wingnut771]

I’ve never seen an aluminum cable in my life.

 

[TheChamp]

I’ve never seen an aluminum cable in my life.

I think you have, I have full confidence.
And it's Aluminium, we are not Americans.

 

[wingnut771]

I think you have, I have full confidence.
And it's Aluminium, we are not Americans.

Sorry, autocorrect, show me an aluminium cable.