The cable theft is a problem that one finds in most first world countries but riff in South Africa, and apart from the huge inconvenience caused to many people in close proximity to the crime that accounts for many deaths.

The theft of electric and telephone cables are a growing and costly problem in this area of the world. These cables are stealing money that can be generated for thieves who sell copper and other metal content to scrap dealers who in turn sell to large companies export their products to other countries, mainly in Asia.

Because copper wire cables can be melted, are actually a traceable and can be reused, becomes very tradable goods prices reached based on the world copper prices.

This practice over the last twenty years has cost the authority of generation energy and your company millions of dollars in losses. They even spent millions of dollars in trying to mark the wires (similar to the marking of cattle) to encourage retailers not to buy cables marked scratch, but this has done nothing to curb the trade.

Despite this side of the problem of cable theft can be measured in dollar terms of friction and is transmitted to consumers is the darker side of this problem is even bigger.

Take one meters recent theft of electric cables in Johannesburg, where thieves smashed and stole electrical wires below the street level. The amount of damage that caused in making the cable length caused two substations in the city to go down. This in turn an entire neighborhood plunged into darkness for several days and forced one of the largest malls in the southern hemisphere to close for five days. Imagine the financial loses this case.

Originally, this problem was caused by small groups of vandals and an employed people who just do to generate some money for themselves. Typically your local group of homeless and homeless people who do this to generate cash for their daily meals with wine and cigarettes. However, now that the criminal elements larger and more organized have entered the market, things have taken a turn nasty, which is the death of innocent people in homes and hospitals that depend on having an uninterrupted supply of electricity to sustain life. Also lives have been lost because of not being able to use the phone in an emergency.

Cable theft has grown further with the arrival electricity which was the poorest of the poor areas. Here it is not that the cables are being stolen, but containing the electricity itself.

Poor people are using their devices to connect directly to the overhead power lines and therefore the theft of electricity. It is estimated that one person dies every day trying this type of theft and during cold spells are lost innocents. In the recent cold spell in South Africa illegally connected faulty equipment to overhead cables killed four children.

As seen in this short report is much more than cable theft that meets the eye!

Michael Russell Your Independent guide to Cables

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