Several households woke up to darkness on Tuesday morning after a major outage at the Hurst Hill substation.
JOHANNESBURG - Joburg City Power has dispatched a team to look into power outages in parts of the metro.
City Power said that the outage was caused by the breakdown of a line that supplied electricity to several communities across the municipality. Spokesperson Isaac Mangena: "This is affecting several areas, including Auckland Park, Brixton, Melville, Westdene, Newlands, Montclair, Sophiatown and surrounding areas. We have dispatched operators to two substations that are interlinked to investigate the causes of this outage. Estimated time of restoration will be communicated as soon as the cause of the outage is identified.
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