BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS IN OUR DISTRICT

 ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS

Dangerous electrical connections are found all over our towns in the Govan Mbeki District Municipality. See photos below.

Recently (10 August) an 8 year old girl, Charlene Jacobs, ’n was killed at an open electrical connection in Leandra

Melkbos.net reported as follows:

AfriForum, in conjunction with a branch of the civil rights organisation in Leandra, has laid complaints of murder and culpable homicide against two employees of the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality. The complaints arise from the death of Charlene Jacobs (8) from Leandra. Charlene was electrocuted on the afternoon of 10 August when she touched a lamppost in a street.

 

In a statement released yesterday AfriForum states that “an independent expert attributes Jacobs’s death to the illegal electrical connections on this pole and the fact that there is no earth wire attached to the lamppost.” According AfriForum’s District Coordinator for Mpumalanga West, Hillel Coetzer, the actions of the municipal employees are criminal in nature because poor service delivery and impaired maintenance have led to the death of a child.

 

 

 

PICTURES COLLECTED BY THE PUBLIC OF

DANGEROUS ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS

IN OUR AREA

 

 

 

Please send your pictures to  lourens.badenhorst@webmail.co.za



 

You can forward your complaints to  callcentre@govanmbeki.gov.za