Outages this week: City Power raises concerns over rising criminal attacks delaying electricity restoration
· Citizen
City Power has announced that planned electricity interruptions are scheduled to take place this week in an attempt to strengthen, maintain and improve the reliability and stability of the electricity network.
Planned interruptions have been scheduled from Monday to Friday.
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However, concerns arose after City Power noted a disturbing increase in criminal activity targeting its infrastructure and personnel in the Roodepoort area, following a recent incident in which security officers involved were left traumatised.
Planned outages
The following areas will be without electricity this week:
On Monday, the Midrand Service Delivery Centre (SDC) will experience maintenance interruptions affecting the Waterfall Substation from 9am until 5pm. Affecting areas including:
- Capitol Hill
- Morkel Close
- African Data Centre
- Parts of Richards Drive
- Parts of Le Roux Avenue
- Parts of Old Pretoria Road.
Gauteng outages
On Thursday, outages are to be expected at the Randburg Substation from 8am until 4pm, which will also affect the Beyers Substation, Windsor Substation and the Fontainebleau Substation.
On Friday, the Roodepoort SDC will be interrupted as the Mechanical Workshop Switching Station will be off from 8am until 4pm. This will affect Ibis Street, Eider Road and Dabchick Street.
Meanwhile, Eskom has announced outages in these areas from Monday to next Wednesday as follows:
Load-reduction-schedule-GAUTENG-JUNE-2026-DownloadAttacks on electrical infrastructure
City Power has noted a disturbing increase in criminal activity targeting its infrastructure and personnel in the Roodepoort area.
This comes after an incident occurred around 6.10pm on Saturday when armed suspects gained access to the Robertville Substation after removing sections of barbed wire from the perimeter of the fence.
According to City Power, upon entering the facility, the suspects confronted security officers on duty and robbed them of their cellphones, security radio and an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing the scene.
Electricity challenges
While City Power is relieved that no one was physically injured and no infrastructure was damaged during this incident, it said that the armed robbery is yet another indication that criminal elements are becoming increasingly bold in targeting critical electricity infrastructure.
“These attacks threaten not only our assets but also the reliability of electricity supply to thousands of customers,” said Isaac Mangena.