Tshwane repairs Pretoria east areas hard-hit by recent heavy storm
The situation brought about by hectic weather conditions over the weekend has resulted in a massive service backlog.
Electricity and other Tshwane maintenance crews are targeting areas hit by outages after strong winds and hail fell in parts of Tshwane for repair.
The bad weather uprooted several trees damaging power lines among other structural damage.
Storm aftermath in Centurion R101 by shell. pic.twitter.com/AqLClC7Bpl
— Pretoria Traffic (@TshwaneTraffic) February 18, 2024
Pretoria Tuine. Hewige storm het woonstel blok se dakke afgewaai. Mense word ontruim pic.twitter.com/Sc09iM1dK1
— 🔞SA911 (@JustdoitZee) February 18, 2024
Finance MMC and Ward 85 councillor Jacqui Uys said Pretoria east and Mamelodi were hard hit.
“The storm hit parts of the east fairly hard, Pretoria east has seven area outages, while six are smaller block outages. We had shortages of material, such as cherry pickers which we are sourcing from other areas as the outages are vast.
We ask residents to be patient as teams work as quickly as they can.”
#PowerUpdate: Finance MMC Jacqui Uys is speaking here in her capacity as an MMC deployed to Region 6. pic.twitter.com/RB8T6zBW9m
— City of Tshwane (@CityTshwane) February 19, 2024
Tshwane metro spokesperson Selby Bokaba said Tshwane technicians were hard at work attending to power supply interruptions in various parts of the municipality occasioned by the recent stormy weather.
“The situation has resulted in a massive restoration backlog. To ensure that the backlog is addressed speedily, since this morning, the city has deployed maximum resources to the affected areas.
Technicians were grouped according to areas of deployment to reduce travelling distances between service requests, thus shortening the restoration time.”
He said the metro was committed to ensuring that power was restored to all consumers.
“We plead with our customers to exercise patience while we strive to reduce the backlog.”
Rosslyn depot #PowerUpdate
Jan van Riebeeck substation is off. A tree fell on the line at Emily Hob House between Spider and Berg Avenue Pretoria north.Team attending to affected areas.
— City of Tshwane (@CityTshwane) February 19, 2024
[WATCH] Tshwane teams on the ground working to restore power following weekend outages caused by bad weather conditions. @CityTshwane pic.twitter.com/9JsK1x5uxR
— Mayor Cilliers Brink (@tshwane_mayor) February 19, 2024
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