JOBURG mayor Mpho Phalatse has asked power utility Eskom to grant the city a three-day reprieve from loadshedding in order to deal with escalating faults and outages following devastating flash floods in many parts of Gauteng.
As of Monday, City Power was still dealing with over 4 000 service calls related to the outages. The areas hardest hit include Roodepoort, Hursthill, Northcliff and Lenasia, where infrastructure was severely damaged by flooding.
MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department (EISD), Michael Sun, said progress is being made with limited resources in addressing thousands of outages that have occurred since last week’s inclement weather and flooding.
Continuous rainfall means more faults are being logged every hour.
“Given the urgent need for City Power to attend to the widespread and escalating faults, the entity has expressed its concern that loadshedding is not only causing to additional faults and stress on the network, but
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