Telkom has announced a promising decline in criminal activities targeting its operations, signaling that its preventive measures are proving effective.
From April to June, the company reported losses of R3.8 million due to criminal activities such as copper cable theft and infrastructure vandalism, a significant decrease from the R10.1 million lost during the same period last year.
Simile Ndlovu, Telkom’s Executive for Forensic, Security, and Insurance, shared with Business Times that the company is addressing various crimes, including copper theft, fiber damage, damage to exchanges, battery theft, and robberies involving technicians working on infrastructure.
“We are happy with one fact: the numbers are declining,” Ndlovu said. “We experience robberies where the technicians who drive the Openserve vehicles are targeted as they fix and expand infrastructure. They get robbed of their cellphones and belongings.”
In response to these challenges, Telkom, along with other cellphone network service providers, has established the Communication Risk Information Centre to further enhance security measures.
Also read: Telkom Supports Delivery Ka Speed To Drive Growth In The Townships
Telkom’s enterprise and supplier development initiative, FutureMakers, as well as the Telkom Consumer and Small Business (CSB) Retail, announced today that they have strengthened their relationship with Delivery Ka Speed.
Delivery Ka Speed is a 100% black youth-owned and township-based delivery service SME, by donating bikes to 10 drivers and investing further in the SME.
It is an innovative township delivery platform that connects customers with local restaurants and merchants, is a strategic partner to bolstering Telkom’s job creation mandate.
Initially, Delivery Ka Speed operated the 10 delivery bikes provided by Telkom in the Hammanskraal and Pretoria areas. The bikes, worth R300,000, were gifted to the drivers on a rent-to-own basis.
