Loyiso Langeni
12 September 2015
The City of Cape
Town has called upon Philippi residents to assist the City’s effort to curb the
ongoing vandalism and theft of electricity infrastructure in the Philippi
farming area.
Councillor Ernest
Sonnenberg said Cape Town is spending on average R800,000 each month to secure,
repair and replace stolen infrastructure in Schaapkraal.
Councillor
Sonnenberg said technicians are called out to the area on a near daily basis
“Very often, as
soon as repairs are completed, vandals simply throw chains over the overhead
conductors and transformers, tripping the electricity supply once more. We have
it on good authority that many of the saboteurs are from the Egoli informal
settlement in the area, having declared that as long as they do not have
electricity supply, they will continue to disrupt supply to surrounding areas.”
Sonnenberg added.
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