{"id":135103,"date":"2016-08-31T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135103"},"modified":"2016-08-31T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:51:34","slug":"eskom-workers-charged-for-meter-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/135103\/eskom-workers-charged-for-meter-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom workers charged for meter theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1,400 electricity meter boxes have gone missing at Eskom\u2019s Customer Network Centre in Mankweng, Limpopo, according to the power utility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meter boxes are believed to have been used to illegally connect houses in nearby Mamadimo Park,\u201d said Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>Two Eskom employees have been suspended for their involvement in electricity theft, while criminal charges have been laid against three others.<\/p>\n<p>Dileep John, head of Eskom\u2019s anti-theft campaign Operation Khanyisa, said the power utility is renewing its fight against electricity theft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom views criminal activity and electricity theft in a serious light, especially among its own employees,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on electricity theft<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/120247\/small-businesses-behind-electricity-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Small businesses behind electricity theft<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/101082\/eskom-wants-harsher-sentences-for-electricity-thieves\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eskom wants harsher sentences for electricity thieves<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/95513\/eskom-plagued-by-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eskom plagued by theft<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,400 electricity meter boxes have gone missing at Eskom\u2019s Customer Network Centre in Mankweng, Limpopo, according to the power utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":90548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-135103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135105,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135103\/revisions\/135105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}