Large parts of Johannesburg’s north-eastern suburbs were by Monday afternoon still without electricity, the city’s power supplier said.
Technicians were still battling to restore power after a fault on an 88kV power line caused an outage at about 3.30am on Monday.
Power was restored to a portion of Rosebank at about 9.30am, but Alexandra, parts of Houghton, Randburg, Bruma, Orchards, Kensington, Killarney and Melrose were still without electricity.
”There is no change. We are still working on the problem,” City Power spokesperson Sol Masolo said.
He could not give an indication of when the power should be restored.
Early on Monday, the power failure caused havoc with the city’s traffic.
Johannesburg metro police spokesperson Wayne Minnaar cautioned motorists to take extra care and to regard dead traffic lights as four-way stops. — Sapa