{"id":53574,"date":"2022-01-25T22:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=53574"},"modified":"2022-01-25T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:11:14","slug":"thieves-steal-state-house-electricity-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thieves-steal-state-house-electricity-cables","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Steal State House Electricity Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Copper cable thieves struck close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s closely guarded official Bulawayo residence, plunging the State House located in Zimbabwe\u2019s second-largest city into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, InspectorAbednico Ncube, said they are receiving increasing reports of copper cable theft. He said:<\/p>\n<p>I can confirm that we are receiving an increase in the number of reports of copper cable theft.<\/p>\n<p>We are appealing to members of the public to assist police with information that might lead to the arrest of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Theft of cables is affecting all operations in the city. Some have affected police stations, including the State House.<\/p>\n<p>On January 20, we received a report of theft of 225m x 35mm copper cables in the Donnington area, and another one of 1 400m x25mm of overhead copper cable conductors in Sauerstown and Hillside on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>We receive such reports on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament is set to craft a Copper Control Amendment Bill that will provide for the imposition of a mandatory 10-year jail term for vandalism of cables.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Copper cable thieves struck close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s closely guarded official Bulawayo residence, plunging the State House located in Zimbabwe\u2019s second-largest city into darkness. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson in Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, InspectorAbednico Ncube, said they are receiving increasing reports of copper cable theft. He said: I can confirm that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2770,3778,3113,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-53574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-copper-cable-thieves","14":"tag-copper-cables","15":"tag-state-house","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thieves Steal State House Electricity Cables - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Copper cable thieves struck close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s closely guarded official Bulawayo residence, plungin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thieves-steal-state-house-electricity-cables\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thieves Steal State House Electricity Cables\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Copper cable thieves struck close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s closely guarded official Bulawayo residence, plungin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thieves-steal-state-house-electricity-cables\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-25T20:56:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-25T20:11:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/01\/img-61f059449b2c9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"639\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thieves-steal-state-house-electricity-cables\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/thieves-steal-state-house-electricity-cables\",\"name\":\"Thieves Steal State House Electricity Cables - 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