Willowbrook power outage: first fault located, second search planned
City Power says its test branch has located the first fault affecting the Willowbrook interruption and will now proceed to locate the second. The 11:04 SAST update on 10 October follows an overnight report of approximately 95% restoration among affected customers, including Willowbrook Estate and Fever Tree Estate. The latest notice does not confirm full restoration or give a completion time.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: partly restored · 10 October, 11:04 SAST: City Power reports the first Willowbrook fault located, with the second to be located; full restoration is not confirmed.
Source moment: 10 Oct 2026, 09:04 UTC (11:04 local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power says the first fault has been located and the test branch will proceed to locate the second.
An additional existing fault continues to affect remaining customers; further work is required.
No restoration estimate or affected customer denominator is supplied.
First fault located; second still to be found
At 11:04 SAST on 10 October, City Power reported that its test branch had successfully located the first fault and would now proceed to locate the second. Locating a fault is a step toward resolving an interruption; this statement does not say that repairs are complete. The earlier restoration update, published at 02:30 SAST, put recovery at approximately 95% of affected customers. No customer total is supplied, so that percentage cannot be converted into a number of connections or people.
In its earlier notice, published at 19:52 SAST on 9 October, City Power acknowledged an unplanned interruption along Van Dalen Road North, including Willowbrook Estate and Fever Tree Estate. Operators had been notified and would be dispatched to investigate. That first publication time is an acknowledgement time, rather than a precise outage onset; the available information does not identify when each customer lost supply.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named affected area
- Willowbrook: Van Dalen Road North, including Willowbrook Estate and Fever Tree Estate
- Latest work status
- First fault located; test branch will proceed to locate the second, according to City Power
- Affected customers
- Total unknown; percentage is not a customer count
- Remaining interruption
- Additional existing fault reported; technical details unknown
- Completion estimate
- Unavailable; further work required
An additional fault prevents full restoration
The overnight statement attributed the remaining interruption to an additional existing fault and said further work was required. The later notice describes progress in fault location, without specifying equipment, repair steps or the boundary of the remaining affected area. It does not establish the relationship between the first and second faults and the earlier recovery percentage. A successful location report therefore does not establish that every customer in the two named estates has regained supply.
No estimated restoration time was available in the overnight notice. The later fault-location update supplies no completion deadline or new restoration percentage. Publication times record when City Power issued these statements, rather than exact switching or repair times. The relationship to other Roodepoort interruptions remains unverified, and shared geography does not establish a common cause. Individual customers may have different supply histories that the reported percentage cannot resolve.
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