A team of technicians had to be flown into Gqeberha from Cape Town to fix a vandalised high-voltage cable that is almost half a century old. The incident has left a large part of the city without electricity since Friday 5 November.
Gqeberha municipal spokesperson Kupido Baron said it is estimated that repairs and security upgrades, costing around R3-million, will be completed by Tuesday evening or Wednesday — almost five days after the power went off on Friday afternoon.
A plan to provide intermittent power from an alternative substation also failed because of high demand for electricity, likely due to load shedding. In September, vandalism at the Ditchling power station plunged large parts of the city into darkness. At the weekend, the Summerstrand neighbourhood watch arrested a man at around 11am after he was caught tampering with a substation in Driftsands Drive. He had sustained serious burn wounds.
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