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Investigations were launched and the group was arrested at a scrap metal shop while allegedly selling the stolen copper cable.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were allegedly found in possession of copper cable worth approximately R 26 636-00, a sound gun and ammunition. All items were seized for further investigation, including the VW polo that they were driving in.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects will make their first appearance before Bafokeng Magistrate\u2019s court on 18 July 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH WEST \u2013 Five suspects aged between 26 and 44 were arrested on 14 July 2022 by the Hawks\u2019 Serious Organised Crime Investigation for theft of copper cable and tampering with essential infrastructure at a Rustenburg mine.It is alleged that the group &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five suspects arrested Rustenburg mine copper cable theft - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five suspects arrested Rustenburg mine copper cable theft - South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NORTH WEST \u2013 Five suspects aged between 26 and 44 were arrested on 14 July 2022 by the Hawks\u2019 Serious Organised Crime Investigation for theft of copper cable and tampering with essential infrastructure at a Rustenburg mine.It is alleged that the group ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\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\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sjadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b5258049232dc72b42ad1073df5c990f\"},\"headline\":\"Five suspects arrested Rustenburg mine copper cable theft\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\"},\"wordCount\":138,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"General\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\",\"name\":\"Five suspects arrested Rustenburg mine copper cable theft - South Africa Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/five-suspects-arrested-rustenburg-mine-copper-cable-theft\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Five suspects arrested Rustenburg mine copper cable theft\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa Journal\",\"description\":\"Hub for all the Latest News &amp; 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