Pappegaaisberg outage: City Power investigates three streets
City Power says a resource has been dispatched to investigate a power outage affecting customers in Amanda Street, Albertina Sisulu Street and Pappegaaisberg Street. The operator’s 11 October update says the interruption was reported the previous night, 10 October. The cause and a restoration time have not been established.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: confirmed by the source · City Power reports an investigation dispatched for the three named Pappegaaisberg streets; restoration is not confirmed.
Source moment: 11 Oct 2026, 06:24 UTC (08:24 local time)
In 20 seconds
The operator names three streets in Pappegaaisberg, without an affected customer total.
A resource has been dispatched to investigate the cause, according to City Power.
The report dates to the night of 10 October; the exact start and restoration time are unknown.
Investigation dispatched after an overnight report
City Power published its notice at 08:24 SAST on 11 October. It says the outage was reported the night before and that a resource has been dispatched to investigate its cause. This establishes the operator’s reported response at that point. It does not confirm that an investigation has been completed, that a fault has been located or that repairs are under way.
The date of the report should be kept separate from the start of the interruption. The notice gives no exact onset or reporting clock for 10 October. It also gives no restoration estimate. There is therefore no supported deadline against which to measure progress, and the dispatch statement should not be read as a promise of imminent reconnection.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named streets
- Amanda Street, Albertina Sisulu Street and Pappegaaisberg Street
- Operator response
- Resource dispatched to investigate the cause
- Affected customers
- No customer count or address-level boundaries given
- Restoration estimate
- Unknown; no time supplied in this notice
The three named streets define the reported scope
Amanda Street, Albertina Sisulu Street and Pappegaaisberg Street are the locations named by City Power. The notice does not state how many customers are affected or identify individual properties. These street names do not establish a whole-suburb outage or a wider interruption across Johannesburg. Supply at a particular address cannot be determined from this update alone.
The notice belongs to City Power’s Hursthill service delivery centre, but that service label does not establish a connection with earlier Hursthill cable incidents. This report is kept as a separate event. A later operator update is needed to establish the cause, repair progress or restoration; none of those outcomes is supplied by the current notice.
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