City Power urges police to prevent infrastructure vandalism during load shedding
Joburg City Power is appealing to the police to be more active as Roodepoort continues to stay in the dark because of vandalism during power cuts.
The area’s sub-stations have been hit with increased attacks of vandalism and theft in recent months during power cuts when danger is minimized for criminals interfering with the transformers, cables, and fuses.
City Power said that it could not keep up with the continuous unplanned maintenance of its sub-stations, leaving residents without power for extensive amounts of time beyond power cuts.
Spokesperson Isaac Mangena said that one of its major units was hit on Thursday morning.
“A damaged badly sub-station at Florida north, it affects power part in the large part of the area that includes Florida, White Ridge, Delarey, Industria North, Quellerina and even Northcliffe extension 19 and Maraisburg.”
#Siemert #RegionF#Jeppestown: Power is fully restored.
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— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) October 27, 2022
-EWN
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According to the outlet, the channel may pull the plug on her reality show if she doesn’t stop acting like a diva. According to the publication’s source, production was put on hold recently as Zahara and the production team were apparently not seeing eye to eye. Learn More
