Cosmo City experiences no power and no water on the same day

Cosmo City residents were left without electricity and water yesterday, 22 March.

Johannesburg Water and City of Joburg were aware of the water outage, as Joburg Water technicians worked on restoring water services.

Water services is being restored and some areas have water now as systems is recharging ^NB

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) March 22, 2020

Johannesburg Water tweeted, “Water services are being restored and some areas have water now as systems is recharging. Apologies for the inconvenience.”

Some Cosmo City residents took to Twitter, to try and find some answers on the power outage as well. City Power said on their Twitter page that the power outage at Christiaan De Wet Road was also affecting Honeydew, Welterverden Park and surrounding areas. Power was restored earlier this morning (23 March).

The combination of no electricity and water did not sit well with residents.

Does anyone care that Cosmo City has no water and electricity at the same time @Eskom_SA @JHBWater @GeoffMakhubo @CityofJoburgZA @mphomoerane ? , no update about any of this.

— Angela (@Angela80573943) March 22, 2020

@Eskom_SA are we going through unplanned loadshedding now. Here in Cosmo city / cosmo creek we experience loadshedding without any warning. And when others are not. We experience this 3 to 4 times a week. Just now power went off

— 𝗧𝗵𝗲 ⭕️𝗻𝗹𝘆O𝗻𝗲™️ (@PharrellWinters) March 22, 2020

#ChristiaanDeWetOutage
Device supplying some areas in Roodepoort is faulty. This has caused an outage in the following areas:

Allen's Nek
Constantia Kloof
Honeydew
Welgerheuwel
Panorama
Strubens Valley
Little Falls
Weltevreden Park

Technicians are dispatched. ETR not known.^BP

— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) March 22, 2020

This is frustrating really, how do we plan our lives if they just going to cut electricity off without warning? I'm so pissed honestly. @Eskom_SA

— Mususumeli Suzan Ramudzuli (@Suuu5656) March 22, 2020

Dear @Eskom_SA Cosmo City ext zero and five are the direct customers of Eskom. We experience load shedding more than any other extention in the area. Sometimes it goes beyond the 4&half hours, mostly is six hours.

— Nwana Mhan-Lizzy (@shivambuk) March 22, 2020

Cosmo city no electricity. We can’t be dealing with no power and no water at the same time…. no maan 😡

— Angela (@Angela80573943) March 22, 2020

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