Lenasia Extension 1 power outage: cable fault affects remaining customers
City Power says a cable fault continues to affect the remaining 19% of customers in the Lenasia Extension 1 outage reported on 20 October 2026. A test branch team is on site locating the fault, according to its 22 October update. The utility gives no estimated restoration time.
Status of this incident
Partial / reduced supply
Last known status: partly restored · City Power reports a cable fault affecting the remaining 19% of customers in the Lenasia Extension 1 incident, with fault location underway and no restoration estimate.
Source moment: Oct 22, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC (02:36 PM local time)
In 20 seconds
City Power links the continuing interruption to the outage reported on 20 October.
The remaining 19% refers to customers within this incident; the underlying customer total is unknown.
Fault location is underway, with no confirmed repair completion or restoration deadline.
Cable fault investigation continues
The operator published its latest statement at 14:36:18 SAST on 22 October, equivalent to 12:36:18 UTC. It says a test branch team is on site assisting with locating a cable fault. This describes investigation work rather than completed repairs. The notice does not establish when the team arrived, when repair work will finish or when the remaining customers will have electricity again.
City Power explicitly connects this update to the outage reported on 20 October. That date is the reported incident date, rather than a verified start time for every affected connection. The 22 October publication is a later progress statement. The available evidence does not support assigning a precise continuous outage duration to individual customers.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Area
- Lenasia Extension 1, Johannesburg; remaining address list unknown
- Remaining affected share
- 19% of customers within the incident, according to City Power; total unknown
- Work update
- Test branch team on site locating a cable fault, according to City Power
- Restoration estimate
- Not provided; full restoration unconfirmed
What the remaining 19% tells customers
The percentage describes customers remaining affected within the operator’s account of this incident. No denominator or absolute customer total is supplied. It therefore cannot be converted into a count of households or people without electricity. The notice also gives no complete street list or address-by-address breakdown of the connections still awaiting restoration.
The update concerns Lenasia Extension 1 in Johannesburg. It does not establish a power cut across all of Lenasia or the city. The cable-fault account and the reported remaining share come from City Power; no separate engineering assessment or independent check at individual properties is available. Full restoration remains unconfirmed, and the statement supplies no timetable for it.
Planning for essential devices
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