AGRICULTURE NEWS - Agri SA has strongly condemned unlawful tampering and interference with all Eskom infrastructure on farms, according to Nicol Jansen, chairperson of the organisation’s centre of excellence for economics and trade.
This followed the outcome of a court case in which a Free State farmer was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for interfering with an Eskom electricity meter allocated to his farm.
Willem Venter of Petrusburg faced four counts of malicious damage to property in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act, of which he was found guilty.
Following a plea-bargain agreement he was ordered by the Petrusburg Magistrate’s Court to pay Eskom back the R750 000 that was lost through his actions.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly
