Man receives five-year prison sentence for tampering with Eskom infrastructure

The Mthatha Specialised Commercial Crime Court has sentenced a man to five years in prison, wholly suspended for five years, for falsely representing himself as an Eskom contractor to the residents of Marhambeni, in Mthatha, and tampering with Eskom’s infrastructure. The man was hired by residents to connect electricity, for which he received R120 000 in payments.