City Power, Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) and the South African Police Service (SAPS) at the Princess Crossing informal settlement in Roodepoort resulted in the removal of several loads of volatile electric wires used by residents to connect power illegally. Illegal electricity connections don’t only cost the City of Johannesburg millions of rands every year, but they also result in many people – mostly children – being electrocuted after coming into contact with live electricity wires. In the past financial year, 18 deaths linked to illegal power connections were reported. In the same period, City Power and national power utility Eskom lost a combined total of R3-billion in revenue to illegal connections. These illegal power connections also overload the system and cause power disruptions.
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