ICYMI: City Power removes illegal connections in Rabie Ridge
RABIE RIDGE – Illegal electricity connections plague Rabie Ridge and cause ongoing power cuts for the community.
City Power officials visited Rabie Ridge and surrounding areas on 17 June as part of an operation to remove illegal electricity cables that have become a problem for the community.
An operation currently underway to remove illegal connections in Rabie Ridge pic.twitter.com/OtMSdzJu5d
— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) June 17, 2020
An empty house was found with bundles of cables by City Power during an operation to cut off illegal connections in Marikana Rabie Ridge.
The cables are similar to those used by City Power and @Eskom_SA and are used in illegal connections.@SAPoliceService are handling the matter pic.twitter.com/9xOAsYTWXW— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) June 17, 2020
Revenue Protection Unit cutting off illegal connections in Rabie Ridge. #ICareIPay pic.twitter.com/ZR2xHntTPR
— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) June 17, 2020
We are in Rabie Ridge on a joint operation with SANDF, SAPS, JMPD, EMPD to cut illegal connections in Rabie Ridge, Kanana, and Marikana.
Illegal connections are the primary cause of overloading that leads to outages experienced in the @CityofJoburgZA in recent days. #ICareIPay pic.twitter.com/BETDH5LW4K— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) June 17, 2020
This is what people had to say on Twitter:
👏🏿👏🏿This is what was needed to sort out Rabie Ridge continuous power outages.This needs to be done on the continuous basis not a once off thing. Congrats to the city power for this efforts. Also what is needed is to check illegal connections in the bond houses too.
— Mojereza (@tjmola02) June 17, 2020
@CityPowerJhb and i say keep up the good work, If possible please take those cable with you.
— makoma (@makoma44201536) June 17, 2020
Those people need the power at the end of the day, what's going to be the fix?
— Hloni (@Hloni_Hlongwa) June 17, 2020
But you can't only cut for those connected illegally whereas those who you had connected legally are still not buying electricity and it's been like that for years
— Ramohlabana (@Sesalono1) June 17, 2020
After removing illegal cables, l hope you helped them by connecting with the right cables. Remember we advocating for #PutSouthAfricansFirstNow #BlackLivesMatter
— WilfMoyo (@Mureri30) June 17, 2020
Related article:
https://www.citizen.co.za/midrand-reporter/219408/illegal-connections-leading-cause-transformer-failures/
https://www.citizen.co.za/midrand-reporter/208669/beware-danger-illegal-connections/
