Lawley 1 and Ennerdale Extension 9 power restored, City Power says
City Power says electricity has been fully restored to customers in Lawley 1 and Ennerdale Extension 9, Johannesburg. Its latest Ennerdale Substation notice, published on 26 October 2026, attributes the outage to multiple attempted cable thefts. The operator dates the interruption to Friday, 23 October. The exact start and reconnection times, and the number of affected customers, remain unknown.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · City Power reports full restoration in Lawley 1 and Ennerdale Extension 9. Exact reconnection time and customer count unknown.
Source moment: Oct 26, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC (01:05 PM local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power reports full restoration to customers in the two named areas.
The outage occurred on Friday, 23 October, according to the operator; no start clock is given.
The restoration statement was published on 26 October; its publication time is not a measured reconnection time.
Full restoration reported in the two areas
The latest statement is headed Ennerdale Substation and names Lawley 1 and Ennerdale Extension 9. City Power published it at 13:05:33 SAST on 26 October, equivalent to 11:05:33 UTC. That timestamp establishes when the operator issued the update, rather than when the final customer was reconnected.
The full-restoration announcement applies to the customers in these two named areas. It does not establish that every electricity fault elsewhere in Ennerdale or Johannesburg has been resolved. Individual unresolved calls have not been independently checked against this statement, so the operator’s area-level announcement cannot verify supply at a specific address.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Named areas
- Lawley 1 and Ennerdale Extension 9, Johannesburg
- Latest operator status
- Full restoration reported by City Power
- Exact reconnection time
- Not supplied; 26 October is the announcement date
Attempted cable thefts cited as the cause
City Power now attributes the outage to multiple attempted cable thefts. The operator’s cause wording changed from “multiple cable thefts” to “multiple attempted cable thefts”; both original statements are preserved in the source record. This is the operator’s account of the cause, and no independent forensic finding is available in the checked evidence.
The operator says the interruption occurred on Friday, 23 October 2026. An exact onset clock and the affected-customer total remain unavailable. Reports about the separate 12 October Lawley outage or Mid-Ennerdale and Extensions 3 and 5 have not been linked to this event. Their timing, scale or recovery position should not be carried over to Lawley 1 and Ennerdale Extension 9.
Backup planning after the interruption
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