I. Introduction
Energy theft is one of the challenges confronting distribution network operators (DNO) globally and numerous efforts have been made to alleviate the challenge. Non-technical losses (NTL) is the most prevailing energy theft in African continents. However, with all the efforts and strategies deployed by the DNO to control the excessive NTL across Africa, the degree of the losses remains high. NTL jeopardized the stability and reliability of the system. Besides, NTL incurs a high cost of electricity distribution, which directly leads to a high cost of electricity [1]. Furthermore, NTL in South Africa leads to increased maintenance costs for DNOs, high electricity theft, and negative impacts on regular customers. It also causes poor power quality issues on the grid and costs power companies and municipal governments significant money. Most energy distributors rely on utilities like Eskom.