City Power

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Joburg power down for four hours June 9, 2004 By JoNews Reporter LARGE parts of Johannesburg experienced a power failure lasting for four hours on Wednesday morning. Sandiso Simelane, acting spokesman of City Power, said the outage was caused by a fault at the Fordsburg Transmission Substation. "The substation tripped under suspected oil pressure early this morning," said Simelane. "As a result, the whole station lost supply." Simelane said technicians were still on the scene on Wednesday afternoon trying to establish the cause of the problem. The areas affected included Joubert Park, Auckland Park, Braamfontein and Parktown. By 1.30pm, electricity had been restored to some of the affected areas. Simelane apologised to consumers for the inconvenience caused. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za