The Delta substation in Hurlingham, Johannesburg, was still down at midday on Tuesday after operators attempted to restore power, but the system tripped again. Photo: Seth Thorne
Johannesburg’s power network is battling to cope with thousands of service requests due to outages across the metro, with cold weather, ageing infrastructure, illegal connections, theft and vandalism worsening the crisis.
City Power says it is working around the clock to clear the backlog but is struggling to cope as new faults are logged.
JoburgCAN says poor maintenance, underinvestment and City Power’s liquidity problems are behind the outages and delayed repairs.
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