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Joburg City Power contractors arrested over cable theft
Two City Power contractors tasked with repairing incidents of cable theft in the south of Johannesburg have been arrested for…
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Attempted hijacking causes gridlock on London Road in Alexandra
An attempted hijacking on London Road in Alexandra led to a traffic gridlock on Tuesday morning. City Power spokesperson Isaac…
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City Power records at least 33 cable theft incidents this week
City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava has commended the work by the security and law enforcement agencies against cable thieves following…
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City Power plans to roll out solar-powered streetlights in Joburg
Joburg City Power said it will soon be rolling out solar-powered street lights across the city that can stay on…
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City Power moves to cut off non-paying Joburg businesses from power grid
Joburg City Power on Tuesday said it wants to put an end to the culture of non-payment by businesses in…
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Cable thieves leave Joburg residents in dark for longer
Joburg City Power said it was struggling to clear the backlog of outages outside of the scheduled power cuts. The…
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Joburg CP to use 3-day blackout exemption to focus on repair operations
While Eskom has ramped up load shedding to stage 6, Joburg City Power said that some residents could expect their…
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Joburg City Power working through backlog to end power outages after heavy rains
Parts of Johannesburg remain without power following recent heavy rains and storms that wreaked havoc in parts of Soweto, Alexandra,…
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City Power under strain as Joburg pounded by rain, floods & power outages
Heavy rains on Thursday night and Friday morning in Johannesburg have caused damage to electricity infrastructure, leaving several areas in…
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City Power welcomes court ruling on providing power to hijacked building
City Power has welcomed the Joburg High Court’s recent dismissal of a bid from occupants of a hijacked building in…
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Treasury office in CBD owes us R34 million, says Joburg City Power
Johannesburg City Power said the Treasury office in the CBD owes the city over R34 million in outstanding electricity payments.…
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Unscheduled power cuts expected in Lenasia south after substation fire
City Power said residents in Lenasia south can expect to have unscheduled power cuts over an unspecified period of time…
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Joburg City Power says it is losing bout R3.6 million every day
Joburg City Power says it is losing on average R3.6 million every day due to load shedding – with an…
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City Power excludes some hospitals from load shedding
City Power has announced that it has started excluding certain hospitals and clinics from load shedding because of the pressures…
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Joburg City Power lauds arrest of Alex metal scrap manager found with stolen cables
Joburg City Power has on Monday welcomed the arrest of a metal scrapyard manager in Wynberg, Alexandra, for being in…
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Joburg City Power threatens to withdraw in areas where technicians are attacked
Joburg City Power is on Wednesday threatening to withdraw from areas where their technicians are coming under increasing attack. During…
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City Power warns residents against substation tampering
City Power is warning residents against opening substations and trying to fix faults as it’s dangerous and illegal. This comes…
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City Power: Cable theft, vandalism & ramped-up load shedding adding to grid strain
City Power said that increased cable theft, vandalism, and now the added pressure of ramped-up power cuts had resulted in…
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Joburg City Power plans to intensify efforts to remove illegal connections
Jo’burg City Power said it will intensify its cut-off operations to alleviate the pressure on the grid caused by illegal…
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City Power: Eldorado Park power infrastructure under attack from cable thieves
Joburg City Power said that its infrastructure in the Eldorado Park area had been under attack by criminals targeting copper…
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City Power buckles under poer outage & rampant cable theft
Johannesburg power supplier, City Power said Eskom’s load shedding is putting a strain on its own network and resources, thus…
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City Power working to restore power in Eldorado Park, 12 distributors stolen
Twelve distributors at the Eldorado Park substation have been stolen and another fault has been detected inside the substation. City…
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Electricity finally restored to Eldorado Park almost a week later
Electricity has finally been restored to all the residents who were affected by the fire at the Eldorado substation, south…
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City Power hopes to restore Eldorado Park electricity by Wednesday
A City Power substation that caught fire in Eldorado Park is still being repaired, leaving hundreds of residents without electricity.…
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City Power works to restore electricity after Eldorado Park substation fire
City Power says teams have been working on restoring electricity to the south of Johannesburg since the Eldorado Park substation…
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Vandalism and cable theft could be sabotage – Mpho Phalatse on Eldos Substation Fire
There is coordinated sabotage of Joburg’s electricity infrastructure, according to Joburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse. She has received reports from the…
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Cold & wet weekend in store for Gauteng residents with flash flood warnings
Gauteng residents will have to contend with cold and wet weather this weekend. The South African Weather Service has issued…
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City Power says Joburg CBD power restored but some residents disagree
Some Johannesburg residents in the CBD say they are still without power despite claims by City Power that the issue…
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Electricity restored to 98% of Joburg CBD after tunnel fire, says City Power
In the latest update, City Power has confirmed that as of late on Monday, electricity had been restored to 98%…
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City Power: Electricity restored in most of Joburg CBD following tunnel fires
City Power said on Monday that it has restored electricity to most parts of the Johannesburg CBD. The lengthy and…
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Efforts to restore power to Joburg CBD & Fordsburg stalled by sewerage pipe burst
City Power’s efforts to restore electricity to several areas in the Johannesburg city centre has hit another setback after a…
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2 City Power security guards shot & killed in Newtown
Two City Power security guards have been shot dead in Newtown. The guards were attending to reports of a cable…
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Joburg CBD to wait a little longer for electricity to be restored, says City Power
Residents affected by the recent massive outages in the Johannesburg CBD will have to go a while longer without power.…
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Underground tunnel fire happening for 2nd time at the same spot, says City Power
Joburg City Power on Wednesday confirmed that this is the second time an underground tunnel fire has happened at the…
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Power cuts putting a strain on our resources, says City Power
Many people in Johannesburg woke up without power on Friday morning despite not being scheduled for power cuts. City Power…
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City Power assures Roodepoort customers over repairs to fire-hit substation
City Power has been dealing with frustrated customers in Roodepoort on Tuesday morning, who have been without power since Saturday…
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2 men arrested for stealing copper and electricity cables worth R3 million in Joburg
Two men have been arrested for stealing copper and electricity cables in Johannesburg. They were handcuffed over the weekend and…
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Parts of Roodepoort plunged into darkness after Robertville substation fire
Parts of Roodepoort are still in the dark after two Johannesburg City Power transformers at the Robertville substation caught alight.…
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Man electrocuted while connecting power illegally to a shack in Alex
A 50-year-old man was electrocuted in Alexandra, Joburg, as he allegedly tried to connect electricity to a shack illegally. “It…
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City Power scrambles to restore Lenasia electricity by Monday
City Power is scrambling to restore electricity to various areas in Lenasia by Monday. A fire at a substation has…
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5 arrested in connection with Joburg power outage on Monday morning
City Power engineers are working to restore power to parts of Edenvale after Monday morning’s unscheduled blackout, while the power…
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City Power: Cable theft and equipment failure cause of power cuts in north Joburg
The rolling power cuts have been downgraded to stage two but thousands of residents in northern Joburg are still without…
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City Power backtracks on no blackout promise
City Power says it’s being forced to implement rolling blackouts from Monday. Over the weekend, the agency said it would…
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City Power: Electricity supply being restored in more areas after Robertsham fire
City Power said yesterday, it had restored electricity to more areas in the south of Joburg after the massive fire…
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Residents pay up to R2000 for illegal power connections in Alex
Details have emerged of how much the illegal connectors are charging to connect residents with power in Alexandra. City Power…
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Residents VS police as City Power tries to stop illegal electricity connection
Although emotions were running high as River Park residents took to the streets following City Power’s operation to remove illegal…
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Mongezi Ntsokolo, City Power CEO suspended over corruption claims
The publication has learnt that City Power CEO Mongezi Ntsokolo has been suspended just four months into his new job.…
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City Power to impose steep fines on customers over illegal connections
City Power on Saturday said it planned to impose steep fines on those who connected to the Joburg power grid…
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City of Joburg’s electricity tariff structure criticized for being complicated
Residents in Joburg are already struggling with job losses and salary cuts brought on by the COVID-19 lockdown and now…
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2 City Power contractors arrested for allegedly soliciting bribes
Two contractors employed by City Power have been arrested for allegedly collecting about R6 000 from a Bramley resident whose…
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