Three power substations - Bree, Braamfontein and John Ware - were offline after Wednesday's blast and will remain so until the area is declared safe.
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“Our teams will not respond to outage calls in the CBD until the area has been declared safe to access and work,” City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena said.
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