Battery thieves could plunge SA into a telecomms blackout
07 August 2019 - 06:03
By Graeme Hosken
Image: Supplied Organised crime syndicates risk plunging SA into a telecommunications blackout through the theft of hundreds of batteries from cellphone towers.
Crime syndicates targeting industrial batteries powering the country’s cellphone towers are wrecking businesses and threatening to plunge SA into a telecommunications black hole.
In the past month, thieves – who reportedly sell stolen batteries to off-grid households – have run riot across Gauteng.
