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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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