Warning from SAPS - always check ID of someone at your gate.
The SAPS is sending out a warning about a group claiming to be from the electricity department. They may not have targeted your area (yet) but please be aware of their modus operandi.

1. One of the suspects arrives at the house alone and informs the residents that he is from the Electricity Dept and needs to make an appointment to return in 3 days time in order to fit a cover to the geyser for the purpose of saving electricity. He asks for permission to enter and to be shown the geyser.

2. No identification is shown and three days later the suspect and 3 others, dressed identically - brown pants and yellow T-shirts bearing the word ELECTRICITY DEPT, and carrying toolboxes, arrive.

3. They proceed directly to the geyser and start working. As soon as the occupants relax, they are held up at gunpoint, tied up and the premises are robbed.

Please remind everyone living or working on your property (especially domestic workers and children) not to allow any strangers in and please remember to ask anyone "official" for identification and follow up with the relevant department, before allowing them in.