Eskom has revealed that as much as 7% of the country’s electricity is stolen via illegal connections, something the state power utility can no longer afford.
This comes amid a power crisis and rolling blackouts as Eskom struggles to keep the lights on.
Andrew Etzinger who is the spokesperson Eskom recently told Talk Radio 702 that the company has its own private police force “that goes around every day removing hundreds of illegal connections. A couple of days later and those connections are back.”
He noted that Eskom has 300,000 kilometres of power line throughout the country. He said municipalities would have as much as six times more than that. “We just cannot police it all the time.”…
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