The former CEO of Eskom, Andre de Ruyter, in his widely reported interview with a broadcaster, revealed that among the many challenges the state-owned entity faces, infrastructure vandalism was a major contributor to its failure to provide electricity to the country.
De Ruyter said criminal syndicates had targeted infrastructure that included copper and aluminium cables, and pylons.
In a report published by the Geneva-based Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, it was stated that South Africa’s infrastructure is suffering because of sustained and organised theft of copper,
