Sixty-three-year-old Benjamin Dube has become the latest victim in attacks on City of Tshwane employees after being allegedly held hostage and assaulted by community members while attending to a power outage. | AlexMitchley
On Saturday, Dube responded to a power outage in Soshanguve Block DD that had been without power for five days after a cable was stolen.
A day later, he attempted to do the same thing, but was allegedly accosted by an unknown number of community members."Dube, diligent as he is, he went to the area, on arrival there, he didn't have the equipment as it's kept in the store," Bokaba said. Police and Tshwane Metro officers, who were on scene, called for backup and eventually managed to rescue Dube from the unruly crowd.Condemning the incident, Bokaba said that Dube was a hard-working electrician who had been in the employ of the City for the past 40 years."Despite threats and intimidation and fear of striking workers, he was brave enough to go out and restore power.
He added that employees were being mugged, robbed at gunpoint, held hostage and assaulted when they attend to power outages.
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