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  "id": 2807177,
  "title": "Two more Emfuleni municipal employees arrested in electricity reconnection scheme",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/two-more-emfuleni-municipal-employees-arrested-in-electricity",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-23T14:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/2026-08-23-two-more-emfuleni-municipal-employees-arrested-in-electricity-reconnection-scheme/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Two more Emfuleni Local Municipality employees have been arrested over allegations that they illegally reconnected electricity supplies in exchange for payments, bringing the total number of suspects in the case to seven.",
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      {
        "outlet": "IOL",
        "title": "Five Emfuleni municipal employees arrested over alleged electricity reconnection scheme",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/five-emfuleni-municipal-employees-arrested-over-alleged-electricity",
        "published": "2026-08-23T06:26:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "SABC News",
        "title": "Five Emfuleni employees arrested for fraud, infrastructure tampering",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/five-emfuleni-employees-arrested-for-fraud-infrastructure-tampering",
        "published": "2026-08-23T06:52:55.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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