Bellevue and Yeoville power outage: multiple cable faults
City Power attributes the Bellevue Substation (Hopkins) outage to multiple cable faults affecting customers on Becker, Yeo and Pope Streets in Yeoville as well as Bellevue, Johannesburg. Its evening update on 3 November 2026 says affected customers remain without electricity until repairs. The utility has not supplied an affected connection count or a restoration deadline.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: confirmed by the source · City Power reports multiple cable faults affecting Bellevue and Becker, Yeo and Pope Streets in Yeoville; restoration deadline unknown.
Source moment: 03 Nov 2026, 18:17 UTC (20:17 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power identifies multiple cable faults in the Bellevue Substation (Hopkins) outage.
The named footprint includes Becker, Yeo and Pope Streets in Yeoville as well as Bellevue.
Exact onset, affected connection count, repair progress and restoration deadline remain unknown.
Multiple cable faults identified
The operator published its latest statement at 20:17:53 South African Standard Time on 3 November, equivalent to 18:17:53 UTC. This is an update timestamp, not the physical start of the interruption. The exact onset and the duration experienced by individual properties remain unverified; the publication time cannot be used to calculate either.
City Power now attributes the interruption to multiple cable faults, following its earlier investigation notice. It says affected customers remain off until repairs. The available statement does not establish repair progress, completed work or a promised switching time. A further operator update would be needed before a restoration schedule or recovery could be reported.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named areas
- Bellevue and Becker, Yeo and Pope Streets in Yeoville; connection count unknown
- Operator response
- City Power identifies multiple cable faults; affected customers remain off until repairs
- Latest notice
- 3 November 2026, 20:17:53 SAST / 18:17:53 UTC; restoration deadline unknown
Named streets and limits of the footprint
The utility names Becker, Yeo and Pope Streets in Yeoville as well as Bellevue. Bellevue Substation (Hopkins) is the network reference in the update. No connection, household or population total is supplied. The named streets and area do not establish that every property in Yeoville, Bellevue or Johannesburg is without electricity.
An earlier resident complaint concerned Bellevue East, but its circuit membership remains unresolved. It does not extend the operator-confirmed footprint to all of Bellevue East or establish a shared onset. The October event remains separate from this report; no continuous outage from that earlier interruption has been established by the current evidence.
Planning while the repair time is unknown
For practical household planning, the grid-down essentials guide, internet backup guide and runtime calculator explain essential loads and backup capacity. These resources cannot confirm supply at an individual address or predict this repair duration. The latest supported status remains an outage attributed by City Power to multiple cable faults.