Austin View power outage: 89% supply restored, fault search requested for Monday
City Power reports that 89% of the power supply has been restored to customers in Austin View after a cable fault. Its latest Rabie Ridge Switching Station notice, published at 20:45 SAST on 11 October, says the Test Branch has been requested to locate the fault the following morning, 12 October. The request does not establish a restoration deadline.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: partly restored · 11 October, 20:45 SAST: City Power repeats 89% power-supply restoration in Austin View and says fault location has been requested for 12 October morning.
Source moment: Oct 11, 2026, 06:45 PM UTC (08:45 PM local time)
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City Power reports 89% power-supply restoration in Austin View.
The earlier notice said two load centres would remain off; fault location has now been requested for 12 October morning.
No restoration estimate or affected customer total is supplied.
Earlier notice: two load centres to remain without supply
The latest update moves the fault-location request from a planned step to a request already made. City Power asks for the Test Branch to locate the cable fault on Monday morning. This describes requested investigation, without confirming that a team has arrived, that the fault has been located or that repairs are complete. The update repeats the 89% power-supply restoration figure and provides no estimated time for full recovery.
An earlier statement, issued at 17:32 SAST on 11 October, said two load centres would remain off because of an existing fault. They were not individually named. The later notice does not provide an updated load-centre count or identify remaining affected addresses. City Power uses “89% of the power supply”; this is not a verified percentage of customers, connections or people, and no affected customer total is supplied.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named affected area
- Austin View; Rabie Ridge Switching Station, Johannesburg
- Reported cause
- Cable fault, according to City Power
- Remaining work
- Fault location requested for 12 October morning; earlier notice reported two load centres off
- Affected customers
- Total unknown; 89% refers to power supply
- Restoration estimate
- Not supplied; full restoration not confirmed
A dated Austin View report with limits
The available statement identifies Austin View and Rabie Ridge Switching Station and dates the outage report to the afternoon of 11 October. Its publication time records when City Power issued the update; it does not establish the exact moment the cable fault occurred or when each customer lost electricity. The reported cause is the operator’s attribution, without an independent engineering assessment.
The description of an existing fault leaves its relationship to older Rabie Ridge interruptions unresolved. This update should not be read as proof that those earlier events have ended or that all customers supplied through the switching station have recovered. It establishes partial restoration within the named Austin View scope. Exact onset, affected customer total, remaining load-centre identities and a full-restoration timetable remain unknown.
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