Berea power outage: City Power reports supply restored to four streets
City Power says electricity has been fully restored to customers on Prospect Road, Catherine Avenue, O’Reilly Road and Primrose Terrace in Berea, Johannesburg. Its restoration announcement on 21 October 2026 follows a faulty-cable outage that the operator says was reported on 20 October. The exact time power returned is unspecified.
Status of this incident
Restoration confirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · City Power reports full restoration to customers on Prospect Road, Catherine Avenue, O’Reilly Road and Primrose Terrace; exact restoration time unspecified.
Source moment: 21 Oct 2026, 15:40 UTC (17:40 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power reports full restoration to customers on the four named Berea streets.
The operator attributes the outage reported on 20 October to a faulty cable.
The exact interruption onset, restoration time and affected-customer total remain unknown.
Restoration reported for four Berea streets
The latest statement names Prospect Road, Catherine Avenue, O’Reilly Road and Primrose Terrace. City Power reports supply fully restored to customers on those streets. That is an operator restoration report for the named locations; the available evidence does not establish a neighbourhood-wide interruption or recovery across all of Berea. No independent address-level audit is available.
The restoration notice was posted at 17:40:33 SAST on 21 October, equivalent to 15:40:33 UTC. This records when the operator announced the update. It does not identify the physical switching time or show when electricity returned at an individual property. The available statements also provide no affected-customer total or complete address footprint.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named streets
- Prospect Road, Catherine Avenue, O’Reilly Road and Primrose Terrace, Berea
- Reported cause
- Faulty cable, according to City Power
- Reported status
- City Power reports full restoration to customers on the named streets
- Restoration notice
- 21 October, 17:40:33 SAST; exact physical restoration time unknown
Further fault detected during earlier restoration work
City Power attributes the interruption reported on 20 October to a faulty cable. In an earlier update on 21 October, the operator said a further fault had been detected during restoration that morning and a test team was locating it. That account describes an earlier repair stage. The later full-restoration statement is the current reported position for the four named streets.
The earlier update was published at 12:53:49 SAST on 21 October. Neither statement establishes the exact outage onset, so the report date cannot be used to calculate a precise interruption duration. The technical mechanism behind the cable failure remains unknown. These statements do not establish a link to earlier cable, fire or overhead-line incidents in the wider area; their timelines and affected areas remain separate.
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