South Africa’s power utility company, Eskom, has reported vandalism of its network infrastructure at Gordon’s Bay, Strand, Somerset West and Railways.
The incident which occurred at about at about 03:30, on Tuesday, left several parts of the City of Cape Town without power.
“This act of vandalism and theft affected both the City of Cape Town municipality and Eskom customers,” the power utility said in a statement.
Technicians are trying to restore power but the time of restoration is unknown.
“It will be communicated as soon as possible. Customers are warned to treat all electrical installations as live for the full duration of the interruption,” Eskom added.
Meanwhile, the City of Cape Town took to X (formerly Twitter) to update people affected by the outage.
“It is unfortunately not possible to give a time for restoration at this stage,” it added.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com