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COPPER THEFT !. 1 LOSS OF PRODUCTION 2 BREAKDOWNS IN COMMUNICATIONS 3 ENDANGERING TRANSPORTATION. 4 DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT 5 UNSAFE OR DANGEROUS WORKING CONDITIONS 6 LOSS OF REVENUE. Cable theft caused FNB blackout Feb 7, 2011 6:34 PM | By Sapa. Share.
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1 LOSS OF PRODUCTION 2 BREAKDOWNS IN COMMUNICATIONS 3 ENDANGERING TRANSPORTATION
4 DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT 5 UNSAFE OR DANGEROUS WORKING CONDITIONS 6 LOSS OF REVENUE
Cable theft caused FNB blackout Feb 7, 2011 6:34 PM | By Sapa • Share FNB StadiumPhotograph by: SIPHIWE SIBEKOCredit: REUTERS RELATED ARTICLES • FNB Stadium blackout due to "wet cables" • Lights out at FNB Cable theft was the cause of the blackout at FNB stadium which disrupted a Premier Soccer League match last week, Stadium Management SA (SMSA) said.
Cable theft costs South Africa billions a year By:Helene Le Roux 3rd August 2007 R5-billion a year owing to cable theft that disrupts electricity, telecommunications and rail services. estimated direct cost of cable theft in South Africa is R500-million
In the past three years Telkom has suffered almost R3-billion in losses because of cable theft, Parliament was told on Friday. The cost of security has risen sharply during the past three years from R127-million in 2006/07 to R231-million last year.
Cable theft disrupts coal exports Jun 05 2009 08:10 Johannesburg - Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), the rail arm of South Africa's logistics firm Transnet , had to cancel a large number of trains carrying export coal due to theft of copper cables, it said on Thursday. The rail firm said the theft of cables was hindering exports in the Ermelo/Ogies region in the northern Mpumalanga province. To replace stolen cables and repair locomotives and wagons that could suffer by the disruption could cost the company "millions of rands", it said without giving a specific amount. - Reuters
Eskom: Table indicating the annual cost of cable theft from Eskom in each of the past five years: from 2005 - 2009 • Transnet: • Table indicating annual cost of cable theft from Transnet in each of the past five years: from 2005 - 2009
CABLE THEFT OnMarch 1, 2010InSouth Africa The theft of overhead cables had reached “unprecedented levels”, with an average of ten trains cancelled each day as a result of cable theft, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has said. “The direct replacement cost is more than R42 million every year and the consequential losses, owing to the knock-on effect. runs into many millions more,” Engineering News reports. “Cable thefts on 16 February in the Sentrarand complex, on the Natal corridor and the eastern corridor, which includes the export coal line, seriously disrupted traffic between Johannesburg and Durban; the export coal line from Ermelo to Richard’s Bay; and Bethlehem to Harrismith.
Cable theft threatens intelligent trafficsystems OCTOBER 1, 2009 by roadsafety
Safety problems due to cable theft and lightning in Newcastle MAIN EARTH STOLEN AT LENNOXTON 132KV TO 11KV SUBSTATION
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