Another employee of Johannesburg Water (JW) was attacked in the field.
He was inspecting an illegal connection in Tulisa Park, South of Johannesburg, on Wednesday, when violently attacked.
Nombuso Shabalala, Spokesperson of JW, strongly condemned the incident, calling it an assault on one of the utility’s illegal connections investigators.
“The investigator was at the property to investigate a suspected illegal reconnection after the customer was disconnected by Credit Management Disconnection (Level 1)” she said.
The matter was reported to law enforcement authorities.