The City of Cape Town has raised concerns about the number of incidents reported regarding theft and vandalism of streetlights across the metro.
COURTESY: CoCTAccording to the municipality, Mitchell’s Plain is one of
the worst affected areas, with more than 10 000 fault requests logged between
January 2023 and February 2024. Of these, about 3 000 (31%) pertained to
repeated vandalised infrastructure like poles and theft.
Mayco Member for Energy, Beverley van Reenen, says
Gugulethu, Wynberg, Muizenberg and Philippi, which falls under Area South, is
also of concern.
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INFO: CoCTShe was in Westridge, recently to inspect recent repairs to
streetlights.
‘’Our energy teams are operating under abnormal
circumstances. The extreme impact of load-shedding on our power infrastructure
(that was not designed for load-shedding) as well as the contribution of
load-shedding to the increase of theft and vandalism, have led to extremely
negative impacts and backlogs of service requests, especially single
streetlight outages. Many innovative interventions are being investigated,
while operational changes are under way to enhance service delivery and
turnaround times where required and also to eradicate backlogs as fast as
possible. At the heart of this lies the unprecedented impact of
load-shedding-driven vandalism and the impact on maintenance capabilities,
costs and human resources. If we stand together as a City, with our
communities, we can bring the change that will help to protect our community
infrastructure and enhance service delivery,’’ said Beverley van Reenen, MMC for
Energy.
Done By: Mitchum George
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