SA’s Electricity Crisis | Cape Town in darkness

Parts of Cape Town have been left without electricity. It is being blamed on a fault on a high voltage line. The city’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy and Climate Change Beverley van Reenen provides the latest details. Courtesy #DStv403 #eNCA

[grantbarnado]

Lol..the rest of the country power situation is a chronic problem..the folk in capetown will sought this out timeously..the rest of the country can
Look and learn hopefully..

[tracyhenry]

I have made calls in the past year (at least twice) to the City i.r.o fires lit in the veld area next to the Acacia High Voltage Substation. Presumably these are fires lit either maliciously or fires started to melt copper wire coatings. Either way, people are not meant to be loitering or creating 'mischief' in an area adjacent to a national key point. The City has a habit of batting such problems back to either PRASA or Eskom. It's never their fault….of course. This situation is ENTIRELY preventable. Metro Police have a very important role to play in that area by simply parking their patrol vehicles on the verge of the N1. It would solve three immediate problems - (1) fires being started in the substation veld resulting in outages (2) preventing pedestrians from crossing the N1 between Canal Walk and the substation and (3) motorcyclists like Zelda Van Niekerk and other road users getting fatally shot when their vehicles break down. BUT…..it's never a priority to act preventatively for the CoCT - only punitively. You won't get a fine's worth from a veld fire starter but you will get a fine's worth from law abiding citizens.

[alettacoetzee]

Why do you show electrik vensing en security cameras is that to show the skelm you can go and brake in.Its open season for stelling