Vodacom calls out to communities to assist with base station vandalism and battery theft

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Battery theft warning for South Africa

Vodacom has appealed to law enforcement and communities living near its towers to help it crack down on battery theft and vandalism at its base stations amid a recent increase in these crimes.

South Africa's biggest mobile network said the crimes are largely driven by an increased copper price, which has resulted in a wave of copper theft across the country.
 
Free 100gb data for information to the arrest of such culprits and if arrest two a free phone....
 
Pay Makate first and I will assist in safe guarding your towers.
 
I won't be assisting in vandalising stuff. I am Afrikaans. Not in our culture
 
But but but you guys removed the batteries a while ago, the base stations all went dead during loadshedding. What is your excuse now?

Ahhh... the shareholders want Krismis Box
And the consumer has to do Vodacom's job for them
 
We have said it before here, infrastructure theft and vandalism needs to be treated differently with new laws and punishment.
 
Why are we stealing batteries now? The recycling value of the metals?
There’s no load shedding and I doubt anyone is doing dynamic load shifting with these
 
Thanks to the ANC thieves and communists turning SA into a sh ithole. All have to steal to stay alive.
 
Easy again, shut down the scrap metal industry which is just as guilty as the thieves who metals they happily purchase on a daily basis, knowing that the police officers who come to investigate it are themselves corrupt.
 
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