Power restored to Joburg’s north-eastern suburbs

Power has been fully restored to Johannesburg’s north-eastern suburbs after an outage lasting several hours as a result of a veld fire.

City Power said that the fire had caused power lines at the Kelvin Power Station to trip.

Areas affected included Bramley‚ Savoy‚ Sunningdale‚ Waverley‚ Atholl‚ Kew‚ Highlands North‚ Fairmount‚ Orange Grove‚ Linksfield‚ Norwood‚ Sandringham‚ Bellevue‚ Yeoville‚ Bruma‚ Houghton West‚ Observatory‚ Sydenham‚ Doornfontein‚ Bez Valley and Alexandra.

“City Power would like to apologise to all the affected customers for inconvenience caused‚” the power utility said.

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