Municipality says this is due to cable faults that occurred on the two-feeder lines connected to the area’s substation.

Acting metro spokesperson Themba Gadebe, says metro engineers and technicians are still at work trying to restore power to the affected areas.

“Yesterday technicians managed to repair about five faults on the cable, and are now able to energise one of the feeder lines. Power is slowly being brought back to some of the affected areas and in two hours, 60 per cent of the area will have electricity,” says Gadebe.

Director for operations at the Metro’s Energy Department, Hannes Roos, says they are trying to locate the fault on the second feeder line.

“Once it has been pinpointed, it will take between four to six hours to repair, this line supplies power to the remaining 40 per cent of the area,” explains Roos.

Roos says that there is a possibility that the load could be rotated to make sure that all residents get an opportunity to warm up the water in their geysers and cool the contents of their fridges.

“This will, however, be determined by the configuration of the network.”

Citizens are reminded to treat the network as electrically live at all times, and take the necessary precautions.

Meanwhile, the electricity supply has been reinstated to all areas of Brakpan that were affected by an outage at 11:30 pm yesterday.

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