The power failure which brought a city to a standstill
Little did they know at that time what South Africa was in for
What was big 50 or more years ago is certainly not big today?
Ask Kemptonians who just survived a seven-day blackout after an explosion at the Glen Marais substation on June 8.
Kempton Express first published an article in February 2015 when we came across a newspaper clipping from Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans newspaper which existed many years ago.
One cannot read the year in which this edition was published, but it was in October. One of the stories on the front page is about a 35-minute power outage which brought a whole city to a standstill.
Little did they know at that time what South Africa was in for. Not in their wildest dreams would they have imagined that a 35-minute power failure would escalate to what citizens have to deal with today.
