City Power responds about widespread outages
RANDBURG – City Power speaks after electricity and water are restored.
City Power has responded about the outages that left many northern suburbs without water and electricity between 15 and 17 September.
“City Power has on the morning of the 17th September reconfigured the infrastructure supplying these areas in order to deal with the increased load and it has since been able to supply power without interruptions,” said the utility’s spokesperson Sol Masolo. “A distributor in Ruimsig supplying some of the Roodepoort suburbs tripped and affected water supply in those areas. The same distributor has been restored.”
Masolo confirmed that the following areas were without electricity:
Boundary Park
Bromhof
Bryanston
Johannesburg North
Jukskei Park
Hoogland
North Riding
Olivedale
Sharonlea
Sonneglans
Strijdom Park
Vandie Grove
Weadowhurst
Details: City Power 011 375 5555.
