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Parts of Ladanna and Nirvana affected by power outage

The affected areas are advised to treat all electrical wiring as live during the outage and to switch off all appliances to avoid injury and damage when supply is restored.

POLOKWANE – Residents and businesses in parts of Ladanna and Nirvana will be without power due to electrical issues being attended to by the Polokwane Municipality.

Municipal communications manager Matshidiso Mothapo said an electrical team is attending to a burnt mini substation in Ladanna and that Pietersburg, Klipdam and Tulip Streets are affected as a result.

“The team will do their best to restore electricity as soon as possible,” his statement read.

Meanwhile, the municipality is cutting trees overlapping electrical lines in the Nirvana area.

“For this to happen, the technicians must switch off a block at a time in order for the trees to be cut to eliminate unnecessary power trips that the area often experiences,” Mothapo said.

He added that the affected areas are advised to treat all electrical wiring as live during the outage and to switch off all appliances to avoid injury and damage when supply is restored.

“Affected consumers are requested to exercise patience whilst the issues are being attended to,” he said.

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Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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