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SAPS ARREST SUSPECTS IN TWO INCIDENTS - GREYTOWN & SYDENHAM

Services | SAPS (South African Police Service) DURBAN – Vigilant police officers have arrested three suspects moments after they robbed a store at a shopping mall in Greytown on Tuesday, 12 September 2023.

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COPPER THEFT AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH

In January, the consequences of industrial-scale theft in South Africa included: three security guards killed during heists; three hospitals scaling back operations because stolen copper plumbing hampers their ability to pipe oxygen to intensive care units; trains cancelled due to stolen signalling cable or track sleepers; parts of the city going without electricity for days after thieves toppled pylons. (FT)

Life inside the South African gangs risking everything for copper Demand is so high that thieves risk their lives to supply cartels with scrap metal