The City of Ekurhuleni said electricians who were brutally murdered by community members after being mistaken for cable thieves had produced paperwork to prove that they were duly hired to attend to electrical problems in the area.
Ekurhuleni MMC for Water, Sanitation and Energy, Senzi Sibeko, said an investigation is now underway into the murder of the four electrical contractors.
“City of Ekurhuleni electricians requested assistance from city-approved electrical contractors to assist on the site of an electrical outage in Sarel Hattingh Street, Klippoortjie AH, Germiston. These electrical contractors were attacked by an angry mob of community members who wrongfully assumed that these contractors were cable thieves,” said Sibeko.
“Despite the contractors producing their paperwork in the form of wayleaves and other documentation, the community proceeded to attack them, which tragically resulted in the death of four contractors.”
Sibeko said the ongoing investigation is led by the South African Police Service and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department.
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