What happened

Repeated cable theft and vandalism caused extensive damage at Eskom's Sezela substation and interrupted electricity across eight communities on KwaZulu-Natal's South Coast. Eskom dispatched technical teams but said repairs would take considerable time because of the scale of the damage and could not provide a restoration estimate. Eskom Security and local law enforcement opened an investigation. The reviewed reports did not identify suspects, specify the stolen equipment or publish the substation capacity or number of disconnected customers.

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