City carries out streetlight maintenance and upgrades in Kraaifontein

05 September 2025

The City’s light-emitting diode (LED) upgrade and replacement project is part of the City’s ongoing investment in electricity infrastructure, ensuring that communities benefit from reliable services that are both modern and cost effective. In addition, ongoing maintenance of electricity infrastructure plays a vital role in creating safer communities and improves safety for motorists and pedestrians.

‘We recently conducted a site visit to Kraaifontein to oversee important LED streetlight upgrades in the area as well as critical maintenance to infrastructure.

‘The installation of the new LED lights is a City-wide 25-year programme, which is targeting main arterial roads in the initial phase and broader community streets in outer years. The benefits of these LED lights are significant as they produce clearer light compared to traditional bulbs, enhancing visibility at night. LEDs are much more energy efficient and have a longer lifespan in addition to requiring less maintenance, meaning fewer disruptions for residents. Our streetlight maintenance programme also plays a vital role in contributing to safer neighbourhoods, as well-lit streets help improve road safety for motorists and pedestrians.

‘The City is committed to ongoing investment in all communities and upgrades such as these show our focus on improving and modernising our streetlight infrastructure, ensuring we maintain reliable and high quality electricity services.

‘We also remind residents that vandalism of streetlights not only diverts funding from critical infrastructure expansion projects but also deprives communities of these essential services. Residents are encouraged to report damaged or faulty streetlights via the City’s service channels so that teams can attend to them as quickly as possible,’ said the Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Alderman Xanthea Limberg.

Protect your Power Campaign to tackle R62 million vandalism, theft crisis

The City has spent approximately R62 million the past financial year on electricity infrastructure maintenance and replacement.

This is a first of a kind campaign to highlight the massive impact of vandalism, theft, and illegal connections that leave our communities, neighbourhoods, and roadways in the dark. Much of our infrastructure is located within our communities, in some cases, right next to residents’ homes. The City is calling on you to help us Protect Your Power and build safer, brighter communities by reporting any suspicious activity anonymously to the City’s Public Emergency Communication Centre (PECC).

Let’s ACT: Protect Your Power

Report suspicious behaviour to the City’s PECC: 021 480 7700

The SAPS remains the lead authority in crime prevention.

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