Deputy Speaker, I give notice that I shall move on the next sitting day of the House:
That the House, noting that -
1) cable theft in Kwa-Thema and Langaville in Ekurhuleni has reached a crisis point;
2) the health, welfare and livelihood of ordinary people are being seriously compromised owing to the interruption of electricity, rail and telephone services; and
3) the estimated direct cost of cable theft in South Africa as a whole exceeds R500 million per annum
calls on the government to intensify police efforts to prosecute all those buying stolen cables, tighten legislative measures ...