CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 57

ELECTRICITY

A simple solution to a big problem. Shaaz Moosa, owner of Polycorp, stands
outside the mini-substation that the PCB helped get reconfigured to allow
access only from inside a local business’s premises. It has blocked access
by electricity thieves and is helping to save the surrounding businesses
hundreds of thousands of rands. PHOTO: Barry du Plessis.
elegant solution to the problem could be
realised by simply moving the access to
the substation into one of the affected
business’s premises, behind its perimeter
fence and where its own security could
safeguard access.
“The access door to the mini \