{"id":12191,"date":"2025-07-01T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/three-sa-municipal-workers-arrested-for-alleged-theft-of-390-000-electricity-transformer\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:40","slug":"three-sa-municipal-workers-arrested-for-alleged-theft-of-390-000-electricity-transformer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/three-sa-municipal-workers-arrested-for-alleged-theft-of-390-000-electricity-transformer\/","title":{"rendered":"Three SA municipal workers arrested for alleged theft of $390 000 electricity transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One suspect is reportedly still at large.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, another City of Tshwane municipal worker was arrested in connection with an attempted transformer theft at the Claudius Substation, in the same town of Laudium.<\/p>\n<p>The theft reportedly involved a syndicate and was foiled due to a community tip-off and swift action by the local police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12192,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-12191","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium||    South African (SA) police have arrested three Tshwane municipal workers in connection with the theft of an electricity transformer worth over $390 000 in the town of Laudium","published_date":"2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00||2025-07-01 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17924,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12191\/revisions\/17924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}