South Africa’s infrastructure is being stolen. The latest casualty is mobile-phone company MTH, which has announced that it has lost 53 cellphone towers in Gauteng, the country’s industrial heartland and had to shut them down.
The company said it was losing millions due to the vandalism and theft of tower batteries. The 53 towers have been completely destroyed.
In the first half of 2019, the cost to the industry has reached an unsustainable tipping-point with MTN General Manager: Network Operations, Ernest Paul, saying the damage to towers and infrastructure is far exceeding the cost of repairing and replacing batteries and equipment.
Another major problem is that some acts of vandalism are so severe that hundreds of towers around the country are at risk of being permanently shut down, putting strain on the network and potentially diminishing the quality of the service provided to customers.
Cellular companies have in recent times been hit by rising incidents of theft of tower batteries, causing network disruptions for customers.
MTN said it managed to recover batteries valued at nearly R1 million in the past week alone with help of la enforcement authorities and whistleblowers. The company lost 73 batteries across the country in April. One battery reportedly costs between R30,000 and R40,000.
Paul said as many as 89 cell towers across the country were currently on hold as they await replacement batteries and fixing. Of the 53 towers being shut down, 39 are in Pretoria and 15 in Johannesburg.
“This situation leaves many South Africans without access to network services either because of downtime caused by repeated maintenance and repairs or in the extreme case of towers being terminated, where the regular theft and vandalism renders towers unsustainable. This impacts on consumer’s access to emergency services, effective business operations and connecting with loved ones,” said Paul.
“This is a national problem and more communities and people need to realise they may experience no service at some point if this continues, as loss of services and network quality can range from a 2 to 5km radius to 15km on some sites and affect 5,000 to 20,000 people at any given time.”
According to Paul, the cost of fixing towers so they can be brought back online can be as much as R350 million, adding that his company has already fixed 100 sites at a high cost.
“Cellular companies cannot do this alone. A broader initiative needs to be driven by communities, the private sector, police and prosecutors. We have therefore adopted a 360-degree plan that permeates across our business and have noticed that when combined with greater community awareness and involvement, an immediate dent is made in criminal activities.”
They work in the dark, stripping wheels from parked cars and fleeing into the night.
It’s part of a new wave of crime that is gripping the streets of Table View where owners have woken up to find their car’s axles left bare and balanced on nothing but a set of bricks.
“It’s happening almost every night all around us,” said the area’s Community Policing Forum. “It’s not safe to park on the streets anymore.”
In the past week, there have been at least four reported incidents but forum’s spokeswoman Gemma Gardner, who has labelled the spate of crime as a new trend, said this might be just the tip of the iceberg “as many people tend not to report this type of crime”.
She said while they were not sure how the thieves were able to rapidly strip the vehicles, the assumption was that they worked in teams and used a jack to prop up the car on cinder blocks or bricks.
According to the police’s annual crime statistics, there has been a dramatic increase in these types of crime in the Western Cape over the past five years.
The statistics show that the number of reported incidents of theft out of motor vehicles, which is not just limited to the theft of wheels, has increased from 35 367 in 2009 to 42 638 last year – an 18 percent surge.
Durbanville has seen those thefts rise from 283 reported incidents to 533 in the same period (almost 50 percent).
And Table View has seen a 19 percent spike from 797 incidents to 975.
‘There is a lack of understanding from the residents on how best to use a vacant school’
Wholesale vandalism has seen an entire abandoned Port Elizabeth school simply vanish into thin air – stripped of everything but its concrete floor and support beams in under two months.
Using wheelbarrows, cars, vans and even their heads to transport items, Govan Mbeki township residents have reduced the school near Bethelsdorp to a shell to prevent people from other areas taking what they say belongs to them.
Gqebera High School, which cost R40-million to build, went from eight buildings to only support beams, with residents carrying off bricks and tiles bit by bit to add to their own homes or sell.
How the school looked just 2 months ago, paid for by the South African taxpayers (who are mostly white)What the school looked like after some “affirmative shopping”, stripped bare of all building materials
And although it is one of six in the city which have been left abandoned, the provincial Education Department says it is only aware of three such vacant schools.
The school was closed down earlier this year after pupils were relocated to the Tyilulwazi Secondary School.
The other schools standing vacant are Khumbulani High in Sydenham, DDT Jabavu in Motherwell, Masangwana Primary in New Brighton, KwaNobuhle’s Mlungisi Perfector and VW Kwinana in Khayelitsha.
The looting of Gqebera High has angered many residents, with some saying they had fought to keep the school open, only to see it reduced to nothing in a matter of weeks.
A 22-year-old former pupil, who only identified himself as Sbonda, said they had marched a number of times to try to save the school before it was closed.
“It’s painful seeing it reduced to this,” he said.
“Over the years, some of the teachers even put their own money into the school to keep it running and we even had to sleep in the school computer labs while it was open to prevent break-ins.
“We understood that there were only a few pupils but that was not the point.
“I tried to prevent people from taking away the pieces of the school, but you can’t stand alone in front of a thousand people because you will be putting your life in danger,” he said.
Kholisile Bobi, 49, said it was frustrating to see people looting the school, even though there was almost nothing left to steal anymore.
“My child went to that school so it is heartbreaking to see this.
“After the school closed down, we saw people from Veeplaas stripping it down.
“We would hear sounds and see people busy in the middle of the night while we slept. So residents got frustrated and also started stripping the school.”
Fezekile Grootboom, 42, said people started stealing computers before the school closed down.
“The community contributed greatly to the vandalism.
“People would just wake up on a random day and decide they needed bricks for projects and go get them.
“Even my next door neighbours’ new paving is made from those materials.”
While some of the residents have built or added on to their properties with the material, others are selling it to make a quick buck.
Prense Hando, 20, and Thandolwethu Mangesi, 18, said they had made more than R5000 just selling cables and door frames in the past few weeks.
“We take the material and sell it to people from KwaDwesi extension, Zwide, Veeplaas and Uitenhage,” they said.
Political party leaders have slammed the Education Department for “running the school into the ground”.
The department, however, said it had been in the process of deregistering the school from its assets and handing it over to the Public Works Department.
DA shadow MEC for education Edmund van Vuuren said he was not surprised that the vacant schools were being stripped down. “The department ran the Gqebera School into the ground. But I am not surprised because it is notorious for bad planning.
“There are good people in the department, but the majority are not good enough to manage and make sure that things are going well.”
ANC regional secretary Zandisile Qupe said it was unfortunate that residents had stripped the school instead of using it for other purposes. “There is a lack of understanding from the residents on how best to use a vacant school.”
UDM provincial leader Mongameli Bobani said the fact that vacant schools were often reduced to ruins showed that the department was not serious about education.
“It is a waste of taxpayers’ money for the government not to care about the buildings,” he said.
Education spokesman Malibongwe Mtima said the department was only aware of three vacant school buildings in Port Elizabeth. “We are aware of Gqebera, Khumbulani and DDT Jabavu that are vacant.”
He said before a school was vacated, there was always consultation with the community.
“There are two ways a building goes vacant,” Mtima said.
“Firstly, rationalisation – where schools merge with other schools or when the structure is no longer safe to accommodate pupils.
“Secondly, urbanisation or relocation of the community.
“The entire process of deregistering a building includes public hearings with the community.”
“We ask them if they are in dire need of the building and if not, we hand it over to Public Works. “The community makes submissions and we then choose the best application.”
Mtima said the department was in the process of deregistering Gqebera and handing it over to Public Works.
“The process is … in the final stages,” he said.
Public Works regional director Johan van Dyk said Gqebera High had not officially been handed over to the department.
“Therefore there’s basically nothing we can do.
“We recently reported an issue to the police where 30 people broke down and stole roof tiles from Gqebera High School.
“In cases like these, police just shrug their shoulders, knowing that the culprits would get arrested today and do the same thing tomorrow,” he said.
Police spokesman Dumile Gwavu said three people had been arrested and later released for possession of stolen property from Gqebera last month, when one truck and two bakkies filled with building materials were confiscated.
“When the school stood vacant for the entire year, residents saw an opportunity to steal the school building materials and as soon as they see police, they leave the premises and return again later.”
While buildings such as Masangwana, Gqebera and Khumbulani are completely destroyed, others are either used for soup kitchens, Love Life gatherings or occupied by the homeless.
Mzamo Qashani, 32, who lives in front of Masangwana Primary, said people in the area had started making off with building material as soon as they heard it had been shut down for good. – Nomazima Nkosi, Yonela Mgwali and Chanice Koopman of the PE Herald
South Africa spent R140 billion last year to prevent crime. But, if the latest crime statistics are anything to go by, citizens are not getting value for their money from either the police or security companies.
In the past financial year the government budgeted almost R70bn for the SAPS. That’s taxpayer’s money. But many South Africans don’t just rely on the police – they hire private security companies to protect their homes and businesses.
According to the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (Psira), South Africans spent just under R70bn last year with security companies.
On Friday, while releasing the country’s latest crime statistics, Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega pointed out that South Africa’s private security industry was the largest in the world.
Psira has 9 000 registered security companies and over 400 000 security guards on their accredited data base. That’s more people than the police and army combined.
Despite this, South Africans are being robbed when they are in their homes.
This involves some level of violence and happens even though many homes are equipped with hi-tech alarm systems and an armed response service.
According to the latest crime stats countrywide robberies at home went up in one year by 7.4 percent.
In KwaZulu-Natal they dipped slightly this year compared to last year.
Burglaries (when nobody is at home) have remained more or less static in the past decade.
Many businesses have also been robbed even though they employ security guards.
According to the latest crime statistics, in the past year robberies at businesses shot up by more than 10 percent countrywide. In KZN they went up by 15 percent. Over 10 years they went up from 382 cases to 2 707 – an increase of just over 700 percent.
Carjacking continues to be a problem even though most insurance companies insist that even medium-priced new vehicles be fitted with a tracking device.
In the past year, carjacking shot up by more than 12 percent countrywide. In KZN the situation was somewhat better. It fell by just under half a percent and over a 10-year period reflected a downward trend. However, 2 274 people were still put through the trauma of having their vehicles taken, often at gunpoint.
Overall, almost 57 000 vehicles were stolen in South Africa in the last reporting period. About 8 000 of these were taken in KZN.
Economists said taxpayers were not getting value for money from the state and private security companies. Chris Hart, Investment Solutions chief strategist and economist, said: “South African tax is said to be the highest burden in the world. If the country’s 6 to 7 million registered taxpayers are not receiving value for money then this is a big problem.”
He said money spent on security should be money well spent, but instead it was becoming “dead capital” in the economy.
“The police budgets are not being utilised efficiently; if we are spending more than R70bn and not seeing any results, then we have a lot to account for. It reduces growth and the high crime statistics reflect that we have a problem,” said Hart.
Money invested in security is also destroying the economy. The indirect costs incurred from spending billions on security and seeing no results are enormous.
Metal crash barriers found on the premises in Chatsworth
The KZN Police Integrated Vehicle Task Team arrest eight suspects for the theft of metal crash barriers. Whilst on duty last night at approximately 23:00, the team spotted a group “conducting road work” on Himalaya Road, Merebank. On further inspection it was found that the men were removing the guard rails. After further investigation the team proceeded to a scrap metal dealership in Chatsworth. Hundreds of guard rails were found on the premises. The dealer had paid the suspects over R100 000-00 for the metal. According the municipal officials the replacement value of the crash barriers is over R1 million. Detectives are investigating a case of theft.
The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni applauded the members for their vigilance which led to the arrest of the suspects. “These guard rails play a vital role on our roads in cases where vehicles are involved in an accident and we will not tolerate the theft of these guard rails. We will also be investigating whether these men are linked to other similar thefts in the greater Durban area,” she said. – Kwazulu-Natal Police Media Service
The South African Police Service in Limpopo on Monday will be demanding heavy sentences for a black couple and an associate on trial for 53 charges, which include murder, attempted murder, robbery, fraud, theft, racketeering and possession of drugs.
The call comes after the end of a marathon trial which commenced in February 2012 at the Polokwane High Court against Thomas Mothwa (43), his wife Refilwe Mothwa (41) and their associate Jan Mohlala (58). The trio is accused of playing a leading role in targeting elderly people in the rural areas of Limpopo and North West accosting them at or near the banks after they had withdrawn money.
The couple would approach victims under the pretext of knowing them, offering them a lift in their motor vehicle. The unsuspecting victims will then be offered a spiked soft drink and upon losing consciousness, they would steal their bank cards and banking details, identity documents and any other valuables. The victims would then be dumped along the road or thrown from a bridge or into a river and left for dead.
The couple would then enlist Mohlala and other unknown suspects to make withdrawals inside banks by replacing the photograph in the victims’ ID books with that of their associates or other accomplices, allowing them to misrepresent bank officials that they are the rightful owners and make withdrawals at various banks and ATM’S.
Their evil deeds started in 2000 and were finally halted by the police in 2007 leaving four victims dead, while two other victims James Molomo and George Moshoana bodies are yet to be accounted for and many others defrauded of their hard earned money. Both Molomo and Moshoana are presumed dead.
Four men have been arrested for allegedly stealing steel safety barricades from the M2 freeway, at the Joe Slovo offramp, Johannesburg metro police said on Monday.
“Metro police were alerted of four men cutting and removing the steel safety barricades [on Sunday]…Officers went to that area and found the men pushing the barricades in a trolley down the offramp,” said Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
“Officers also found them with tools that were used to remove the barricades.”
The men were arrested and taken to the Johannesburg central police station. They are due to appear in the city’s magistrate’s court soon facing charges of theft of municipal property. – Sapa
A traffic officer and a security guard have been arrested for shoplifting in Heidelberg, police said on Friday.
Constable Mathews Tshabangu said they were arrested on Thursday after being caught on camera stealing clothes at Edgars.
The officer, in full uniform, was filmed entering the fitting room, leaving it with a plastic bag full with clothes, and proceeding straight to the entrance, where she spoke to a female security guard.
She left the shop without being searched, said Tshabangu.
The stolen clothes, still with the price tags on, were found at the officer’s house.
The women would appear soon in the Heidelberg Magistrate’s Court, he said. – sapa
A staggering 40 million euro ($53 million) worth of diamonds and other jewels was stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe’s biggest jewelry heists in recent years, police said. One expert noted the crime follows recent jail escapes by members of the notorious “Pink Panther” jewel thief gang.
The hotel in the sweltering French Riviera was hosting a temporary jewelry exhibit over the summer from the prestigious Leviev diamond house, which is owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.
A police spokesman said the theft took place around noon, but he could not confirm local media reports that the robber was a single gunman who stuffed a suitcase with the gems before making a swift exit. The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter on the record.
The luxury Carlton hotel featured prominently in Alfred Hitchcok’s “To Catch a Thief,” which starred Cary Grant as a reformed burglar chasing a jewel thief. It is situated on the exclusive Promenade de la Croisette that stretches a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) along the French Riviera, and is thronged by the rich and famous throughout the year. The hotel’s position provides not only a beautiful view of the sea but also an easy getaway for potential jewel thieves along the long stretch of road.
“It’s a huge theft. Anytime you talk about a heist with many millions of dollars it turns heads and feeds the imagination,” said Jonathan Sazonoff, U.S. editor for the Museum Security Network website and an authority on high-value crime.
He said the likelihood of recovering the stolen diamonds and jewels is slim, because the thieves can easily sell them. “The fear is, if you’re dealing with high-quality minerals, it’s hard to get them back,” Sazonoff said. “They can be broken up and so they can be easily smuggled and sold.”
The valuable gems were supposed to be on public display until the end of August. It was not immediately clear how many pieces were stolen.
Leviev, in a brief statement, said: “Company officials are cooperating with local authorities investigating the loss and are relieved that no one was injured in the robbery.”
Several police officers were placed in front of the Carlton exhibition room – near a Cartier diamond boutique – to prevent the dozens of journalists and photographers from getting a look at the scene of the crime.
Hotel officials would not comment, and attempts to get comments from Leviev or his company were not immediately successful.
Europe has been struck by several brazen jewelry thefts in recent years, some of which have involved tens of millions of dollars in treasure.
On Feb. 18 in Belgium, some $50 million worth of diamonds were stolen. In that heist, robbers targeted stones from the global diamond center of Antwerp that had been loaded on a plane headed to Zurich. Authorities have since detained dozens of people and recovered much of the items stolen in that operation.
Five years ago, in December 2008, armed robbers wearing women’s wigs and clothing made off with diamond rings, gem-studded bracelets and other jewelry said then to be worth $108 million from a Harry Winston boutique in Paris.
Also in 2008 – in February of that year – in a scene reminiscent of the movie “The Italian Job,” masked thieves drilled a tunnel into a Damiani jewelry company showroom in Milan, Italy. They tied up the staff with plastic cable and sticky tape, then made off with gold, diamonds and rubies worth some $20 million. The robbers had been digging for several weeks from a building under construction next door.
Cannes appears to be a favorite target this year – in May it was struck by other two highly publicized jewelry heists during the Cannes Film Festival.
In the first theft, robbers stole about $1 million worth of jewels after ripping a safe from the wall of a hotel room. In the second, thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive hotel and grabbed a De Grisogono necklace that creators said is worth 2 million euros ($2.6 million).
Sazonoff said it is normal for robbers to gravitate to a place like Cannes, whose glimmering harbor and glamorous film festival attract the world’s rich and famous. “Why do thieves target Cannes? It’s simple … On the Cote d’Azur, it’s where the monied people flow,” he said.
Sazonoff also said police would likely probe whether Sunday’s heist is linked to recent jail escapes by alleged members of the Pink Panther jewel thief gang.
On Thursday, gang member Milan Poparic escaped his Swiss prison after accomplices rammed a gate and overpowered guards with bursts from their AK-47s, police said.
Police say the Pink Panther network’s members are prime suspects in a series of daring thefts. According to Interpol, the group has targeted luxury watch and jewelry stores in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States, netting more than ?330 million (£285m) since 1999.
Poparic is the third member of the Pink Panthers to escape from a Swiss prison in as many months, according to Vaud police.
“The brazen drama of it is their style… The possibility of the reemergence of the Pink Panther gang is very troubling and taken seriously by law enforcement worldwide,” Sazonoff said. “The theft of high value diamonds is exactly what they do, so it’s not a great leap to assume they are on the warpath again. They are a crime wave waiting to happen.” – AP
One of Mpumalanga’s most wanted criminals, suspected drug-leader Douglas Mogakane, will appear in the Mhala Magistrate’s Court in Thulamahashe on Thursday.
A Sapa correspondent reported that Mogakane would appear in connection with more than 10 charges including from murder, armed robbery and carhijacking.
Mogakane, 27, was arrested in Pretoria after an armed robbery in July last year after he escaped from custody in Skukuza police cells on August 4, 2011.
On Tuesday, he appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on charges of business robbery, committed in Pretoria after his escape, which led to his arrest.
He was refused bail and the case was postponed to August 14, for further investigation.
Mogakane was transferred to Mpumalanga to face his other charges, police said.
“Mogakane is alleged to have committed a series of atrocious crimes including rapes, business robberies, armed robberies, house robberies, murder, car hijackings, theft of motor vehicle and possession of unlicensed firearms,” spokesman police spokesman Colonel Leonard Hlathi.
He said Mogakane would appear along with two others who are accused of being part of his gang.
“We hope the court does not grant him bail until his trial. After his escape from the Skukuza police cells Mogakane reportedly continued to terrorise the community of Mpumalanga, allegedly raping women, killing people and also hijacking cars,” said Hlathi.
Hlathi said some trial dates had been set.
“In some of his alleged cases, a trial date has been scheduled to take place during September, 11. He will not face the trial in the magistrate’s court but in regional court.” – Sapa
A crowd of people rushed to steal pigs from an overturned truck near Badplaas in Mpumalanga, Beeld reported on Thursday.
NSPCA inspector Petro Oosthuizen said the truck, carrying 139 pigs to an abattoir, overturned near the town on Tuesday afternoon.
The driver was seriously injured and transported to hospital.
She said she and four colleagues had euthanased 53 injured pigs, and the owner of the animals, a farmer from the Vryheid district, was informed of the accident.
“We decided to wait with the remaining pigs, until the owner arrived.”
A shocked Oosthuizen said that suddenly, “as if out of nowhere”, a crowd of people descended on the accident scene.
Some of the animals were picked up by their back legs and others were dragged off.
All the pig carcasses and the 86 live pigs were carried off, while the local police reportedly declined to intervene.
“We begged them to help us to protect the pigs but they said they were powerless against such a large crowd,” Oosthuizen said. – Sapa
Three policemen accused of theft and extortion appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Thursday.
They allegedly kicked down Anton Pillay’s door last February and confiscated a plastic bank bag containing 15 sachets of tik and R1650, he told the court.
He said the policemen remarked that he had a lot of money, and said they would let him go if he gave them R100 each. He did so and was allowed to leave.
Pillay was testifying in the trial of Constable Nkosinathi Mdiya, Warrant Officer Mogamat Meniers and Sergeant Heinrich Gordon, all of whom have plead not guilty.
Mdiya is charged with two counts of theft, two of robbery and one of extortion; Meniers is charged with one count of theft and one of corruption; and Gordon faces three theft counts, two of corruption, two of extortion, and two of robbery.
Pillay told the court he lived in an informal settlement in Diep River, and that his girlfriend went to the police after an argument.
He said he was asleep, and groggy from drugs, when the police knocked on his shack door, then smashed it down.
Asked by prosecutor Xolile Jonas what happened to the drugs, he said: “I don’t know, and did not care. I just wanted to be out of the police station.”
He said no investigation docket was opened against him.
Asked why he laid charges against Meniers and Gordon, he said: “They had arrested me before on other charges, and I thought it wrong of them to take my money like that”.
Defence attorney Shantell Morgan said Meniers would tell the court that Pillay’s girlfriend went to the police because he was holding her child hostage, and that their visit to his home had nothing to do with drugs or money.
“My client will say that when they arrived at your shack they heard a child screaming behind the locked shack door and that they kicked down the door because Pillay refused to open it.”
The New York Police Department is deploying a surge of detectives to patrol an increasingly mean new beat: Facebook and other social networks.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday that he’s doubling the number of detectives assigned to combating local teen gangs and that increased surveillance of social networks will be a major part of the strategy.
The gangs under scrutiny are not the big, established outfits like the Bloods and Crips, which are well known around the United States, but neighborhood groups fighting over loyalties often to just one part of a housing project or other limited turf.
“Under a program we’ve named Operation Crew Cut, the Department intends to double the size of its Gang Division from approximately 150 detectives to 300 phased in over a period of time,” Kelly said in prepared remarks to a police conference in San Diego, California.
The propensity of the social media addicted youths to use Facebook and other networks to “brag about their murderous exploits” means detectives will be watching their screens, as much as the streets.
“In addition to tracking the admissions of criminal conduct and plans of future crimes by crew members on Facebook, You Tube and elsewhere, the division will be responsible for maintaining a dictionary of sorts with a continually updated lexicon employed by crews as a kind of code,” Kelly said.
Officers will infiltrate gangs under online aliases registered with their superiors. They will also be allowed to use untraceable Internet cards on their laptops.
Kelly, who runs one of the world’s most technologically advanced police departments, with a rapidly growing surveillance capability, said measures were being taken to ensure that monitoring the networks does not go too far.
“Recently, we issued new guidelines for officers using social media as part of criminal investigations. We did this to instill the proper balance between the investigative potential of social network sites and privacy expectations,” he said.
The initiative reflects a shift in crime away from murder, which is down 18 percent so far this year, Kelly said.
However, overall crime is up four percent, largely due to a wave of teen-on-teen thefts, especially involving iPods and other Apple products.
“Like the impact on the economy itself, the allure of Apple devices has affected New York City’s crime rate,” Kelly said. “In 2002, we recorded a total of 86 thefts of Apple products in all of New York City. Last year that number was 13,233.” – AFP
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