Eskom has been briefly suspending companies in some components of the nation as assaults on employees escalate. It says there have been 14 assaults on its employees in Gauteng as much as 31 July. No arrests have been made.
“You haven’t any thought one thing like that might occur when it does. You don’t anticipate the neighborhood to assault you since you assume all they need is for the fault to be fastened, however you get stabbed … You simply by no means think about {that a} reported electrical energy fault may result in such rage.”
That is the harrowing account of an Eskom employee, who requested to not be named, describing how he and his colleagues battle robbers and thugs every day.
Eskom has been briefly suspending companies in some components of the nation as assaults on employees escalate. It says there have been 14 assaults on its employees in Gauteng as much as 31 July. No arrests have been made.
In line with Eskom, attainable motives for the assaults are to steal cable and different materials to make use of for unlawful connections or to promote to scrap sellers, and to rob safety personnel of their weapons.
The facility utility mentioned most of the incidents had been happening…