Some suburbs in the east of Pretoria were without any electricity on Tuesday evening.
The reason for this latest outage was because of a trip at the Wapadrand substation, said ward councillor Jacqui Uys.
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She said there was no indication as to when the power would be restored.
“Usually something like this does not take long to resolve as they isolate the issue and then restore the power,” she said.
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“However, this cannot be confirmed until the reason for the power failure is established.”
Uys said municipal teams were currently at the substation.
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