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Recyclers
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Recyclers almost arrested for dragging what looks like copper

copper Pinetown
KwaZulu-Natal

Suspects caught with R5m copper belonging to PRASA and eThekwini Municipality

copper
News

Warning issued to scrap metal dealers buying stolen copper

Recyclers
News

Recyclers almost arrested for dragging what looks like copper

copper Pinetown
KwaZulu-Natal

Suspects caught with R5m copper belonging to PRASA and eThekwini Municipality

copper
News

Warning issued to scrap metal dealers buying stolen copper

Copper
Gauteng

Copper thieves steal 10 metre ICU Oxygen pipe in State hospital

By Siso Naile20-12-2022 22:55

Copper thieves almost cost the lives of patients after they stole a 10 metre Intensive Care Unit (ICU) oxygen pipe at Baragwanath

Illegal
Gauteng

Illegal Zimbabwean cable thief abandons bail

By Siso Naile30-09-2022 23:40

An illegal Zimbabwean national, (26), abandoned his bail application after he was arrested for bribery and copper cable theft

police copper wire
News

Police: Three arrested for possession of stolen copper worth R1.2m

By Storm Simpson06-08-2022 16:38

Transnet and PRASA identified the two tons of stolen copper as their property. Two women and a man were arrested.

Cable
Gauteng

Fed up City Power intensifies war on relentless cable thieves

By Rorisang Kgosana09-07-2022 08:00

City Power is intensifying their war on cable theft as they make several arrests this week in Johannesburg.

Newlands East, KwaZulu-Natal, KZN, illegal scrapyards, copper theft, stolen copper, task team raid, joint operation, Prasa, Transnet, Telkom, South African Police Service, SAPS
KwaZulu-Natal

KZN SAPS recover almost 700kgs of stolen copper – three arrested

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty05-07-2022 15:31

SAPS in KZN arrested three suspects in connection with 682 kilograms of stolen copper found in two illegal scrapyards in Newlands East.

copper cables
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Copper cables worth R15 million recovered, two suspects arrested

By Thabo Baloyi07-06-2022 22:32

Two foreign nationals were found offloading stolen copper in a storage facility in City Deep and the pair was subsequently arrested

Copper, copper cables, copper theft, Industria West Extension, Johannesburg, foreign nationals, three arrested, Eskom, Johannesburg City Power, SAPS, police
Gauteng

Three foreign nationals arrested for theft of copper worth R500k

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty29-05-2022 12:39

Three foreign nationals were apprehended by a team of Eskom and City Power officials along with police in Johannesburg for copper theft.

gauteng hospitalisation omicron data restrictions
News

Human Rights Commission condemns copper theft at Charlotte Maxeke

By Nokwanda Ncwane10-07-2021 12:30

The SA Human Research Commission (SAHRC) has condemned the alleged copper theft at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Gauteng.

Two police offices arrested for copper theft
News

Two police officers arrested in KwaZulu-Natal for copper theft

By Corné van Zyl20-06-2021 08:00

Two police officers and their accomplice were arrested in Umlazi, Kwazulu-Natal on Friday for the possession of 200 meters of stolen copper.

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