A number of power failures across Johannesburg on Friday morning could be linked to overloading and cable theft or damage to cables by third parties, City Power said.
Spokesperson Louis Pieterse said power failures in parts of Parkmore, Houghton, Kensington, Wisonia, Glenvista and Boksburg affected individual households, not every resident in those areas.
”These are not major [power failures] but minor ones where individual people might be affected due to low voltages.”
He warned residents to minimise their electricity use to avoid unnecessary blackouts and said City Power was working with police to curb the cable-theft problem.
Through this campaign, 70 people had been arrested in Gauteng since the beginning of May.
Pieterse could not indicate when power would be restored in the affected areas but said City Power was ”dealing with the problem as it occurs”. — Sapa