Ormonde power outage: City Power reports partial restoration
City Power reports partial restoration at Robertsham Substation for customers in Ormonde, Johannesburg, in its 23:26 SAST update on 22 October 2026. The operator says a faulty mini substation must be tested before repairs can take place. An earlier full-restoration statement remains unresolved against this later account.
Status of this incident
Partial / reduced supply
Last known status: partly restored · City Power’s latest notice reports partial restoration; its relationship to the earlier full-restoration statement remains unresolved.
Source moment: Oct 22, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC (11:26 PM local time)
In 20 seconds
The latest City Power statement reports partial restoration for Ormonde customers at Robertsham Substation.
The operator says testing of a faulty mini substation is required before repairs.
The relationship to an earlier full-restoration notice is unresolved; no restoration deadline is known.
Latest notice reports partial restoration
The later City Power notice was published at 23:26:34 SAST on 22 October, equivalent to 21:26:34 UTC. It reports partial restoration at Robertsham Substation for customers in Ormonde. This is the time of the operator’s statement, rather than a verified outage start time. The exact onset of the interruption is not established.
City Power says a faulty mini substation needs testing before repairs can take place. This describes work still required, without confirming that testing or repairs have been completed. The notice provides no affected customer count, remaining proportion without supply, complete street list or restoration deadline. It cannot establish the supply position at an individual property.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Reported area
- Ormonde; Robertsham Substation, Johannesburg
- Affected customer total
- Unknown; remaining proportion and streets not supplied
- Operator response
- Faulty mini substation requires testing before repairs, according to City Power
- Restoration report
- Partial restoration in latest notice; earlier full-restoration account unresolved
Earlier restoration statement remains unresolved
At 21:46:54 SAST on the same evening, equivalent to 19:46:54 UTC, City Power had reported full restoration and no fault found for Ormonde. The later partial-restoration and fault account leaves an unresolved difference between the two statements. The available evidence does not establish whether this reflects a recurrence, a correction or different local faults.
Both notices come from the same operator. They are successive accounts from one source lineage, rather than independent corroboration from separate organisations. Neither establishes electricity availability at every Ormonde address. No connection has been proven to the 21 October Aeroton cable fault or the separate 22 October Soccer City transformer notice, so those events are not combined in this report.
Planning while supply remains uncertain
The runtime calculator helps compare essential-device demand with available battery capacity. The internet backup planner covers connectivity needs during uncertain electricity supply. These tools support preparation, but they cannot verify local restoration or predict a utility repair time. For this incident, the latest supported position remains City Power’s partial-restoration report with testing still required before repairs.