Most of the CBD has been without electricity since Monday after a fire in an underground tunnel at Ntemi Piliso street tripped two main power lines.
JOHANNESBURG - Some residents and businesses in and around the Johannesburg CBD will, unfortunately, stay in the dark for at least one more day as efforts to restore power continue.
Joburg City Power said that the clean-up would continue, after which the laying of new cables would begin.Repairs are still in progress. City Power appreciate your patience during the period of this outage. ^MM pic.twitter.com/9n44Tw8m8e "You own a shop you can make more than R4,000 but now because there is no electricity it is half of this," said one shop owner.
City Power said that technicians had been on site since Wednesday to start with the repairs in the underground tunnels.