Roodekrans power outage: City Power reports full supply restored
City Power reports full supply restored in Roodekrans following an outage caused by multiple cable faults. Its Wilropark Substation bulletin was published at 12:58 SAST on 9 October. This supersedes its morning report that four mini substations remained off, but does not identify the exact final switching time or verify supply at every individual address.
Status of this incident
Current status unconfirmed
Last known status: restored, according to the source · 9 October, 12:58 SAST: City Power reports full supply restored in Roodekrans after multiple cable faults.
Source moment: Oct 9, 2026, 10:58 AM UTC (12:58 PM local time)
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City Power reports full supply restored in Roodekrans in its 9 October Wilropark Substation notice.
The operator attributes the interruption, first reported on 8 October, to multiple cable faults.
Exact onset, final switching time and affected customer count remain unknown.
Full supply restored, according to City Power
The latest operator notice identifies Wilropark Substation and Roodekrans and says full supply has been restored. City Power attributes the outage to multiple cable faults first reported the previous day. The report therefore concerns the Roodekrans interruption acknowledged on 8 October. It does not establish a Johannesburg-wide all-clear, provide a customer count or record an independent address-level audit.
The 07:48 SAST bulletin had said the test branch would be requested to locate double cable faults between Kasjoe No 2 and Blinkblaar No 1 mini substations, and between Celtic Close and Moepel No 1. Four mini substations were to remain off until the faults were located and repaired. The later restoration statement updates that position without describing the detailed repair sequence or saying when each section returned to service.
What the sources tell us, and what they do not
- Affected area
- Roodekrans; Roodepoort, Johannesburg
- Operator restoration report
- City Power reports full supply restored in its 9 October bulletin
- Earlier interruption scope
- Earlier four mini substations off; latest operator statement reports full supply restored
- Affected customers
- Count unknown
- Operator cause
- Multiple cable faults, according to City Power
- Restoration report
- Full supply restored; exact final switching time not stated
Earlier partial restoration report
At 22:53 SAST on 8 October, City Power acknowledged a recent disruption in Roodekrans. It said operators had been notified and would be dispatched to investigate the cause, with the findings guiding repair and restoration plans. The subsequent Wilropark notice says the outage was reported on Thursday evening, 8 October. That reporting date does not identify the exact moment electricity was lost.
At 01:01 SAST on 9 October, City Power reported power restored up to 82% after a faulty cable, with four load centres still off. The percentage has no stated denominator and cannot be converted into customers or people. The later morning notice described four mini substations; their exact mapping to the earlier load centres remains unverified. Those figures are historical stages of the response, rather than the current operator position after its full-supply statement.
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