In one of the streets in Hlalanikahle the cables can be seen in middle and on the side of the road.
In the same area sewage water runs down a road and little children are using the road, unaware of the danger they are putting themselves in.
Residents said they have been complaining about the sewage and nothing is done about it.
“People need to be aware about dangers of these cables. They need to dig furrows to put them in. The lives of our children are in danger because of these cables. It is a known fact that what we do is wrong but we need to safeguard our children as well,” said one of the residents of Hlalanikahle.
Recently a nine-year-old girl died after she was accidentally electrocuted.
Thabi Natasha Mashegwana died after she was searching for her shoes under a bed and accidentally touched an uninsulated electrical cable. The incident happened at Hlalanikahle in Extension 2 on June 10.
According to the police this is not the first incident of this kind in Hlalalnikahle, two other incidents of this nature were reported in the past.
Even though not exactly in the same area, but illegal connections of electricity are widely spread in Hlalanikahle.
A teenage mother died with a baby on her back when she accidentally stepped on illegal connections in Hlalanikahle and they were both electrocuted.
Mr Theo van Vuuren, city administrator on his Facebook page said: “Please be careful, illegal connections for electricity overload our system and contribute to transformer circuit breaker trips and burn outs. However, it also has a much more serious inherent risk.”
Mr Van Vuuren mentioned the incident as well.
