Halfway Gardens power outage: City Power reports supply restored up to 90%
City Power reports that power supply in Halfway Gardens, Midrand, has been restored up to 90% following an outage acknowledged on 21 October 2026. The operator says the remaining 10% will stay off until repairs are complete. Its latest notice requests the test branch to locate a cable fault and gives no estimated completion time.
Status of this incident
Partial / reduced supply
Last known status: partly restored · City Power reports power supply restored up to 90% in Halfway Gardens; remaining 10% off pending repairs, with no completion estimate.
Source moment: Oct 21, 2026, 06:23 PM UTC (08:23 PM local time)
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City Power reports power supply restored up to 90% in Halfway Gardens.
The remaining 10% will stay off until repairs are complete, according to the operator.
The precise outage onset, affected-customer count and restoration deadline remain unknown.
Partial restoration reported in Halfway Gardens
The latest operator update was published at 20:23:14 SAST on 21 October, equivalent to 18:23:14 UTC. It reports power supply restored up to 90%, with the remaining 10% still off pending repairs. These are City Power’s descriptions of supply progress. They do not establish percentages of residents, households or verified customer connections, and no absolute affected-customer figure is available.
The notice time records when City Power published the update. It does not establish when individual properties regained electricity. The available evidence identifies Halfway Gardens within Midrand, Johannesburg, but provides neither a complete affected-address list nor a confirmed boundary for the interruption. Full restoration has not been reported in the checked statements.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Reported area
- Halfway Gardens, Midrand, Johannesburg; full address footprint unknown
- Reported progress
- City Power: power supply restored up to 90%; remaining 10% off pending repairs
- Latest repair update
- City Power has requested the test branch to locate a cable fault
- Completion estimate
- No completion time provided in the checked notices
Cable-fault location requested; completion time unknown
City Power says the test branch has been requested to locate a cable fault. The statement does not confirm that the fault has already been located or repaired. The remaining supply interruption is tied to completion of repairs, with no published deadline. The precise technical mechanism and the amount of work still needed are unspecified.
An earlier notice, published at 13:37:39 SAST on 21 October, acknowledged an outage affecting customers in Halfway Gardens and said operators had been dispatched to investigate. That notice is the earlier response stage, followed by the evening partial-restoration update. Neither notice fixes the exact start of the interruption, so a precise outage duration cannot be calculated. No explicit circuit link to Randjespark or Founders View is established by these records.
Planning for essential power needs
The runtime calculator can help estimate battery endurance for essential devices. The internet backup planner covers connectivity needs during interruptions. These tools support preparation; the operator’s progress statement does not verify supply at a particular address.