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Workers maintain power generation transformers.
City of Tshwane MMC for Corporate and Shared Services Kholofelo Morodi says she is committed to eliminating corruption within the municipality’s ranks, while bolstering internal controls to prevent further sabotage of the city’s power infrastructure.
This comes after three municipal officials were arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing a R7 million transformer from the Laudium electricity substation in Pretoria.
#sapsGP Three municipal officials busted for theft of essential infrastructure. A thorough investigation by Gauteng Organised Crime Unit has led to the arrest of three employees from City of Tshwane Municipality.
The three suspects arrested today, 01/07, will be charged with… pic.twitter.com/wyNWBMrweN
— SA Police Service 🇿🇦 (@SAPoliceService) July 1, 2025
The suspects are scheduled to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court today on charges relating to the theft of essential infrastructure.
Morodi explains, “There’s been an investment of more than half a billion into our asset protection. We are looking at technology. We are also making sure that there is proper vetting. There are new systems that they are putting in place now. We’ve had a new entry and exit protocol that they’ve … [put] in the different substations.”
“So this is something that we have prioritised because we realised that it was a weakness and since then we have put in those mechanisms to ensure that we are able to control exit into the substations. But also, what we are doing is investing more money into safeguarding the physical infrastructure itself.”
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