City Power is starting to feel the impact of sustained heavy rainfall on its operations across Johannesburg, with the number of logged queries this morning, exceeding 2000. The wet weather conditions have increased the number of outages and are hampering our restoration efforts as teams battle to access certain areas that are water-logged. The heavy rainfall over the past few days have affected our ability to respond timeously to faults, resulting in prolonged outages.

There are several roads that the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) have closed off for safety concerns after some of the low-lying bridges got flooded, especially in the Roodepoort and Lenasia area. We also have trees that have fallen and blocked off some roads in Hursthill, Parkview, and Randburg areas. In some parts, those fallen trees have snapped our overhead lines, causing additional outages.