UPDATE: 10 September 2025 – 12:00 ALERT: PLANNED POWER SUPPLY INTERRUPTION ON THURSDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2025 Area: Part of Retswelele Our electrical team will be conducting planned maintenance on the 11kV underground cable between Grootboom Street and Sediti Street on ...
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UPDATE: 1 SEPTEMBER 2025 – 19:00 There is currently an Electricity Outage affecting a few residential areas including, Hillcrest, Eltoro Park and possibly others as well. Based on a resident’s report, outage appears to emanate from an electrical box that ...
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UPDATE: 29 August 2025 – 16:20 TEMPORARY WATER SUPPLY INTERRUPTION: SOUTH RIDGE AREA The replacement of a section of the deteriorated 225mm steel pipe is progressing well. The team remains on-site and is taking all necessary measures to complete the ...
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UPDATE: 28 AUGUST 2025 – 07:30 ALERT: TEMPORARY POWER SUPPLY INTERRUPTION – 66kV Trip at HA Morris Substation. Cause: Exploded 66kV line jumper at Galeshewe Substation and 11kV line that ends at Kutlwanong Feeder. Substation Affected: Galeshewe Substation. Action: Our ...
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Protesting taxi drivers have closed off the intersection at Phakamile Mabija and Quinn Streets (near Samy’s). Word on the street is this is due to the Traffic Department issuing illegal permits to others.
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UPDATED: 25/08/2025 25 AUGUST 1904, De Beers takes over the town council electricity 25 AUGUST 1954, Gallery founder Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin dies. Photographer extraordinaire Alfred Duggan-Cronin Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin (pictured) was an Irish-born South African photographer who undertook several photographic and collecting ...
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UPDATE: 24 August 2025 – 20:15 UPDATE 2: REDUCED WATER SUPPLY OVER THE WEEKEND – 22 to 24 AUGUST 2025 The 900 mm valve in the vicinity of Midstation has been successfully installed, and all pumps are now running. A ...
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UPDATE: 22 AUGUST 2025 – 10:30 ALERT: TEMPORARY POWER SUPPLY INTERRUPTION – BLOEMANDA AREA Cause: Faulty jumper on medium voltage (MV) overhead line. This will affect a few streets at Bloemanda, including Stamper St, Makapane St, Kunene St, Mathibe St ...
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UPDATE: 18 August 2025 – 18:30 WATER SUPPLY INTERRUPTION – NEWTON RESERVOIRS PUMPS SWITCHED-OFF REPAIR PROGRESS: The team on-site currently exposing the broken 600 mm asbestos cement pipe. A length of 6meters of this pipe is to be replaced with ...
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PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING ROAD CLOSURES ON 30 AUGUST 2025. The following roads around the SPU South Campus Precinct will be closed from 5am and 11 am. c/o Jacobus Smit Avenue & Waterworks Street (Virgin Active Intersection) c/o ...
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