In an exclusive interview with News24, Transnet Freight Rail's general manager of security and forensics, Marius Bennett, shared the rail operator's statistics for the period spanning April to November, which showed the total length of cable dropped was 742 600 metres, compared with over 1 million metres over the same period last year.
The total number of security incidents also dropped 20% from 3610 in the seven months ended in November 2021 to 2900 in the comparative period this year.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
_Business With open borders policy this will be a on going thing
_Business So what were they waiting for all along?
_Business Crazy. Too little too late!!
_Business More likely because there is less copper to steal.
_Business Viewed another way. A 31% in reduction in cable theft is due to a lack of cable to be stolen.
_Business Now that 90% of trains are not available, just wondering what's happening to the 34 000 employees, are they also paid to do nothing.
_Business Proof that government can effectively fight crime if it really wants to. It simply doesn't.
_Business More than likely the reduction is because all the easy to steal stuff has already been taken!!
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