Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse urgently requested Eskom grant the city a three-day reprieve from load shedding to meet the nearing insurmountable challenge of escalating faults and outages post torrential rain in Gauteng. Click here for the full report📱
MMC for environment and infrastructure services Michael Sun said while progress was made with limited resources in addressing the thousands of outages that have occurred since last week’s inclement weather and flooding, cable theft was spiralling out of control.
Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse has also urgently requested Eskom grant the city a reprieve from load shedding of three days to meet the nearing insurmountable challenge of escalating faults and outages post torrential rain in Gauteng.However, City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena said the power utility was still under pressure dealing with unrelated multiple outages across the city in the aftermath of heavy thunderstorms and resultant floods.
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