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The shocking situation of cable theft in the USA and Mexico

Transnet lost 4 633km of copper cable and 600km of rail tracks between 2019 and 2023. For years, the story of South Africa’s collapsing railway system has been told as petty theft—desperate individuals cutting copper wire for bread. But that story is a lie. What actually happened to South Africa's rail network is an industrial-scale, multi-billion-rand corporate heist executed by transnational criminal syndicates.