Kaya News Reporter
Irate residents of Florida and surrounding areas have been dealing with long periods without electricity. The affected areas include Florida Glen, White Ridge, Bergbron and Northcliff Ext.9
According to residents, City Power alerted them about planned maintenance scheduled for Sunday 5 September from 08h00 to 16h00. Power was restored for a few hours however many complained that the supply kept tripping.
This continued until Wednesday morning when their power went off without warning. It’s been 28-hours and despite residents lodging complaints and querying what the issue is, City Power cannot provide an estimated time of return/repair (ETR).
3-hours ago City Power shared that their technicians had pinpointed the fault but that further digging was required. Residents of Florida and surrounding areas want answers as to when power will be restored and what happens to their food items that will go bad in their fridges.
City Power updates
#FloridaGlen #Outage
Teams worked throughout the night to locate and start repairs on the faulty oil cable affecting power supply to residents in Whiteridge, Bergbron, Northcliff Ext9, Florida Glen.
We are doing all we can to ensure power is restored as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/EBUEqmwzCJ— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) September 9, 2021
#JoburgUpdates #OutageUpdate #Roodepoort
See attached for details.^NN pic.twitter.com/DBYhAG9SPq
— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) September 9, 2021
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Other areas affected
A few weeks ago residents from Lindhaven ran out of patience after sitting in the dark for days on end. the electricity went off during the early hours of Saturday, August 28 and was only restored again the following day around 19:00. It went off again on Tuesday morning, August 31 and hadn’t been restored until 1 September.
Other areas in the south of Johannesburg have also reported being without electricity for hours on end. Booysens, Forest Hill, Turfontein, Kenilworth, Rosettenville, Oakdene and other areas have been affected by an outage from 20h00 Wednesday night.
#JoburgUpdates #ProspectOutage
City Power is experiencing power interruption affecting some parts of Jo’burg South-East.
We truly regret the inconvenience caused to our affected customers. 👇 ^DR pic.twitter.com/Ck8amYL5Y1
— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) September 8, 2021



