Electricity will be disconnected between 08:00 and 16:00. Photo: Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash. For illustrative purposes.
Management of the Rand West City Local Municipality (RWCLM) confirmed that there will be an eight-hour power outage on Sunday April 24 due to critical maintenance that needs to be performed on a substation in Aureus.
According to the Executive Manager of Infrastructure at the RWCLM, Bongani Nkambule, electricity will be disconnected between 08:00 and 16:00.
Areas to be affected are Nola, Aranda, Aureus Ext 1, Oasis, Orion, Parts of Randfontein between 1st Street and 6th Street, Station Mall, shops opposite Station Mall, Spar Main Reef Road, and Westergloor.
All electrical installations and apparatus must be treated as live at all times. We apologise for the inconvenience,” Nkambule said.
For more than 4 and a half years, Clinton Botha was a journalist at Roodepoort Record. His articles were regularly published in the Northside Chronicle now known as the Roodepoort Northsider. Clinton is also the editor of Randfontein Herald since July 2020. As a sports fanatic he wormed his way into various "beats - as the media would know it - and admits openly that his big love always have something to do with a scoreboard, crowds and usually a ball that hops.
