City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says many residential areas are affected and traffic is also backed up as a result.
JOHANNESBURG - It’s not yet clear when electricity will be restored to Johannesburg’s northern suburbs.
“Which includes Fontainebleau, Randburg and the surrounding areas, including Strydom Park. We apologise for the inconvenience to the customers and motorists because even traffic lights are not working on most of the main roads.” At the same time, Eskom has denied it’s preparing to implement stage 5 and 6 load shedding as it struggles to keep the country’s lights on.
However, Eskom's acting head of generation Andrew Etzinger says the plan is to “downgrade load shedding” over the next few days.
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