Eskom has announced a nine-hour power supply disruption for Dobsonville residents in Soweto, Gauteng, on Monday. The power producer said this was due to maintenance.
Eskom said the outage was due to essential maintenance on its distribution network on Monday, 26 Augustsaid the marathon outage was slated for Monday, 26 August. Customers of Extension 3 will be without lights from 09:00 until 18:00."For the sake of safety, customers should treat all electrical appliances as live at all times during the power supply outage," said the utility." Eskom would like to thank for cooperation and apologise for any inconvenience the maintenance might cause.
The joint operation resulted in about 35 illegal transformers being disconnected in Diepsloot, near Johannesburg. Eskom lamented the financial and operational implications of the unauthorised practices after recording losses of about R5 billion in the previous financial year.Tshepiso Mametela is a seasoned journalist with eight years of experience writing for online and print publications. He is an evening/weekend editor at Briefly News.
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