{"id":87820,"date":"2015-05-20T08:20:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=87820"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:20:55","slug":"eskom-removes-200kg-of-illegal-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/87820\/eskom-removes-200kg-of-illegal-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom removes 200kg of illegal cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 200kg of cable providing illegal electricity connections to about 500 people were removed from Zandspruit, a huge settlement west of Johannesburg on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Johannesburg metro police department said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four vans were used to transport the cables out of the area,&#8221; said JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minnaar.<\/p>\n<p>The swoop at the settlement which fronts Beyers Naude Drive in Honeydew, was done by Eskom, the SA Police Service and JMPD, and lasted almost the whole day.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal connections were strung from lamp posts and electricity boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Minnaar said there was no resistance, or casualties, and nobody was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He said the connections were not only theft of electricity, but were also very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The cable would be kept with Eskom which would do follow up investigations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/200kg-of-illegal-cable-in-informal-settlement-removed-20150519\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/83637\/judgment-reserved-in-matona-suspension-challenge\/\"><strong>Judgment reserved in Matona suspension challenge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85832\/eskom-ceo-bonus-still-on-the-cards\/\"><strong>Eskom CEO bonus still on the cards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/85325\/why-molefe-was-chosen-to-lead-eskom\/\">Why Molefe was chosen to lead Eskom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 200kg of cable providing illegal electricity connections to about 500 people were removed from Zandspruit, a spokesperson for Johannesburg metro police department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":75316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164,1746],"class_list":["post-87820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87820","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87822,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87820\/revisions\/87822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}