'All City Power customers who were affected by Eskom's loss of supply are fully restored.'
Technicians restored power to affected areas that included Craighall, Parkhurst, Hyde Park, Randburg, Sandton and Midrand.
Eskom spokesperson Kulu Phasiwe said although power had been restored from a high voltage point of view, downstream customers could take longer to be reconnected due to switching in distribution networks.City Power said in a statement that the outage was caused by a 400kV Eskom line that had tripped.
Phasiwe said earlier in a tweet:"Eskom is aware of a major power outage that affects large parts of Midrand, Sandton and several areas in the northern suburbs of Joburg. Eskom technicians are on site to determine the cause of the outage. No estimated time of restoration at this stage." "We were waiting to help patients and the electricity just cut off. There was no notification or warning that it was going to cut off so that we could have prepared ourselves," Mmbara told TimesLIVE."It is really frustrating, it is not the first time and it really disturbs our business.
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