Hursthill Feederboard3 power outage: protection assessment awaited
City Power reports an outage on Hursthill Feederboard3 affecting Auckland Park, Crosby, Kathrada, Westdene, Melville and Richmond in Johannesburg. The operator places the interruption at approximately 15:00 SAST on 6 October 2026 and says a team is on site. It identifies a suspected protection-system fault, with a restoration estimate to follow the protection assessment. The preliminary cause is not a confirmed final diagnosis.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: confirmed by the source · City Power post published at 18:48:39 SAST, 6 October: team on site for Hursthill Feederboard3; protection assessment and restoration estimate awaited.
Source moment: 06 Oct 2026, 16:48 UTC (18:48 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power reports an afternoon Feederboard3 outage across six named supply areas.
A protection-system fault is suspected; the final cause remains unconfirmed.
No restoration estimate or customer total is supplied.
What the operator reports
The operator describes a total loss of supply within its affected supply areas. That statement must stay within the named incident scope: it does not establish an interruption throughout Johannesburg or at every address in the six suburbs. No customer total or address list accompanies the checked notice. The geographic names describe the reported coverage, without supplying a measurable number of connections, homes or people.
The notice time of 18:40 SAST and the post publication time of 18:48:39 SAST are distinct. Neither should replace the approximate 15:00 onset supplied by the operator. The report says the team is on site and that an estimate will follow assessment of the protection system. It supplies no restoration deadline. The protection assessment is a step in the investigation, not a promise that supply will return at a particular hour.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named supply area
- Auckland Park, Crosby, Kathrada, Westdene, Melville, Richmond; Johannesburg · Hursthill Feederboard3
- Operator position
- Team on site; assessment awaited
- Affected connections
- No total supplied
- Reported cause
- Suspected protection-system fault; preliminary
- Restoration timing
- No verified completed restoration or firm deadline
Planning household backup
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What remains unverified
The Feederboard3 trip reported on 6 October is kept separate from the earlier Hursthill cable-fault report. The relationship between those events remains unresolved, despite shared place names. Repair completion or restoration progress reported for the earlier cable fault cannot be applied to this protection-system incident. The checked evidence contains no observed restoration for the afternoon trip. A further operator statement would be needed to establish its final cause, recovery position or connection-level extent.