SO, IN THE BEGINNING.............. part VIII

Mr. Howard Whitehead,

Ethekwini Electricity

1 Jelf Taylor Cresc.

DURBAN

4001.

11th November 2005.

Dear Mr. Whitehead

HIGHLY-TECHNICAL COMPUTERISED ANTI-THEFT DEVICES ATTACHED TO POLES NUMBER 6 AND 8 HARRIS CRESCENT IN 2004.

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I attach herewith a copy of a letter received yesterday from Rudolph Mhlope. I must add at this point that I have also just received a phone call from Rudolph and must iterate that he is a credit to your company and I firmly believe that he and the others were totally misled as to the severity of the situation from day one. You will by now have received my letter of 28th October, 2005, the confirmation of the SMS content sent to Rudolph and my remarks that the matter is far from closed. While the people mentioned in this letter were at all times pleasant and openly amused at my concerns, may I repeat that I do not hold them responsible.

The responsibility lies solely with your self-styled Projects Manager, Mr. Allen Spence.

I and my husband, (as the account holder and rate payer), would like to know how your Department can justify the repeated call-outs to your various Managers as well as the crews that installed the 'system', and were seen on many more than one occasion 'adjusting' this so-called system? (photos available).

The matter of Allen Spence himself, standing on my verge on Thursday 12th August 2004, extolling the virtues of this system at great length, only for us to be told a year later by Mike Oliver that they were useless and he Mike, had no idea why they had been installed in the first place. (again, a fact I would dispute).

Of by far the greatest interest to me at this point, is the matter of the shared fuse with our neighbour Prakash Balliram at Number 6 Harris Crescent.

There is still a great deal of erratic static interference occurring on both our electric phone and our computer screens. My neighbour higher up the Crescent at Number 33 lost both her computers last weekend in a situation amazingly similar to ours. It has cost my husband over 2ks to have our computers fixed and will no doubt cost my neighbour a similar amount. As we both share the same series of malfunctioning streetlights (this since Mr. Spence assured us they would be reset), I feel it is safe to suggest that we are not alone in suffering damage caused by these lights.

I have twice reported the problem to your Faults line and was given Ref. 309110 by Sandra on Sunday 30th October and Ref. 309573 on Monday 31st October by Jetros. Nothing has changed since then and these particular lights still turn on and off at different times to the rest of the lights visible to me or they alternatively burn all day.

May I request that you urgently launch an enquiry into Mr. Allen Spence's agenda and intentions regarding this whole sorry matter. I do feel that if all this correspondence were somehow made public, it would cast a long shadow over the Electricity Departments' integrity to say the least.

Hopefully this letter finally leaves you in no doubt as to the seriousness of the matter.

Sincerely,

Jane Lovejoy.

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FOOTNOTE ADDED SUNDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2006: What can I say?

The fact that I used the word integrity in the same sentence as Ethekwini Electricity? Hysterical!!!!!

I ask that you at least give some credit where credit is due and appreciate that I tried heheh.... Not having a clue as to what was going on I stumbled about merrily trying to make some sense of it all and got absolutely nowhere....

Mr. Whitehead is in his post purely decoratively as is clear from this correspondence. Who it is that runs the show is a riddle I've not solved. A HUGE deal between, Eskom, the Municipality, Telkom and of course the sellers of the original scheme. Something certainly pongs in the state of Denmark heh....

And today? The chopper is probably grounded due to the inclement weather though at times I imagine I hear it far away in the distance going about its business in spite of the bucketing rain..the Captain has Kitt ii reversed into his driveway backed into the garage. Very odd indeed.... the problem with our electricity dips caused by something on this particular car or what? He is really on my case at the moment. I had barely switched the PC on early this morning for the first time when he chirruped his remote hehe... lovely stuff.....

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SO, IN THE BEGINNING........................... part VI

Mrs. Rosemary Naidoo,

Ethekwini Electricity

Jelf Taylor Crescent

DURBAN

4001.

28th October, 2005.

Dear Mrs. Naidoo

Please be so kind as to give this small gift to Mike Oliver of your Pinetown Security Section.

I would also inform you that I am distributing copies of four letters addressed to the Electricity Dept. (todays being the second written and delivered to Mr. Howard Whitehead) far and wide until such time as I receive a reply to these letters.

Whilst I do see that some of the employees considered the whole matter to be some sort of joke, I no longer find it amusing at all and refuse to allow the matter to be swept under the carpet.

Please note that the letter delivered today addressed to Mr. Whitehead personally has also been signed by my husband, Mr. PA Lovejoy as the account holder.

If you are able to obtain permission to call me I should be delighted to discuss the whole bizarre situation with you. If however, you are advised not to get in touch with me, kindly advise Mr. Whitehead that I intend continuing to distribute the correspondence to schools, banks, malls and the general public in an effort to warn other potential victims.

I thank you kindly,

Jane Lovejoy.

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FOOTNOTE ADDED SUNDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2006:

And this was about where it all fell apart ...*laffin...... where to start hmm..... ok the small gift was the picture id done called Mike & the Mthinyane Mechanics.(see archives) A dodgier bunch you would be hard put to find...Got some brilliant photos of these dudes as they were installing one of the monitoring systems on Bali's streetlight way back on the same day I attended my very first CPF Meeting ....

And distribute the sets of letters I did indeed.... Some of the recipients were VERY interested in the details. Of course this is an ongoing mission and I have now a far wider audience to reach.

At this point the audio monitoring in our house proved its worth BigTime! When nagging my husband for the gerzillionth time about this situation he clearly and audibly stated that he had only signed the previous letter to Mr. Whitehead 'under duress'... (ie. nagged to death). A deathly hush fell and that was more or less that *cackles....... the crooks knew immediately that they were in the clear. Now you begin to see why my dear husband is also known as the Game Wrecker? heheh...

Naturally it was a setback but it certainly didnt stop me, just slowed me down a tad.....

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Published Sunday 10th December, 2006.

SO, IN THE BEGINNING.............. part V

Mr. Howard Whitehead,

Ethekwini Electricity Dept.

Jelf Taylor Crescent

DURBAN.

28TH October, 2005.

Dear Mr. Whitehead,

re HIGHLY-TECHNICAL COMPUTERISED ANTI-THEFT DEVICES FITTED TO STREETLIGHTS OUTSIDE NUMBERS 6 AND 8 HARRIS CRESCENT, SHERWOOD, DURBAN.

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Regarding my visit to your offices today to deliver a further letter addressed for your personal attention. Your Secretary, Mrs. Rosemary Naidoo adivsed me that the original set of three letters had been sent to Mr. Rudolph Mhlope.

In the light of this information, I wish to make it very clear that I do not hold Mr. Mhlope, Mr. Makhoba, Mr. Chris Gower or Mrs. Rani Gobichand responsible in any way for this matter.

I firmly believe that these people were only ever told half-truths and were led to believe that it was merely some sort of prank.

Mr. Mike Oliver too was merely following Mr. Spence's orders and cannot be blamed in spite of being well aware that the job was indeed far from a prank.

My interest lies mainly with Mr. Allen Spence, the so-called Projects Manager for the above system. His specific role leads me to wonder whether he is in any way associated with my neighbour, Prakash Balliram, residing at Number 6 Harris Crescent, and with whom your department now advises us, we share a fuse!

Despite the removal of the 2 so-called dummy boxes I feel our situation is as vulnerable as ever. The series of lights numbers 6 up to 26 still burn at different hours to the rest of the area and the streetlight outside Number 6 itself still has unexplained pilot lights on it.

With this in mind I shall continue to lodge copies of this correspondence in safe-keeping in the event of an accident occurring, at either 6 or 8 Harris Crescent.

Once again, I wait with interest for your personal reply.

Sincerely,

Jane Lovejoy

PS in the event that Mr. Whitehead is not available I would request that the acting Electricity Manager, Raj Dhrochand be given this mail.

cc. Mr. R. Mhlope, Mr. T. Makhoba, Chris Gower, Rani Gobichand and Mike Oliver.

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Added 10th December 2006.... After 5 letters I still have not received ANY form of acknowledgement or reply. Do YOU smell corruption about? Heheh..indeed......