Named in a role in 37 records, and mentioned in the text of 44 entries, between 2018 and 2026.
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An explosion occurred on the night of Wednesday 14 October 2026 at City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, Johannesburg CBD, as technicians were assessing repairs at the site. It followed a fire the night before, the fourth fire at the substation...
On Wednesday evening, 14 October 2026 (the date is inferred from the report, which refers to Wednesday evening and to a restoration target of Thursday 15 October), an explosion occurred at Central Substation in Johannesburg, according to City Power. The blast...
A fourth fire broke out at City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, in the Johannesburg CBD, overnight before Eyewitness News reported on 14 October 2026. The fire followed three earlier fires at the substation, which had caused consecutive outages in...
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A fire broke out at City Power's Central substation in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon, 13 October 2026, according to EWN and TimesLive. City Power described it as the fourth fire at the facility in roughly two months. The fire damaged feeder board 4 and...
At about 02:15 on Saturday 10 October 2026, a mini substation at Extension 31 in Fleurhof, Roodepoort, was deliberately set on fire. City Power said a preliminary security report found that two individuals unlawfully entered the site and set the unit alight....
Electricity supply to 50 households in Randpark Ridge was restored on 5 October 2026 after a two-week outage. The failure was caused by a burnt-out winding in a mini-substation that had also been vandalised. City Power ordered a replacement unit on 27...
A fire broke out on 8 September 2026 at the Central Substation in Johannesburg's CBD, operated by City Power, disrupting electricity supply to parts of Marshalltown, City and Suburban, Johannesburg Central and Selby. It was the second fire at the same...
City Power reported fires at Fordsburg substation and Central substation within about a two week period, cutting power to surrounding communities and businesses in Johannesburg. At the first substation, around 90 percent of affected residents had power...
A fire broke out in the early hours of 18 June at a City Power mini substation on Italian Road in Newlands, Johannesburg. Emergency services responded and contained the fire before it spread further. An assessment found extensive damage to an indoor 500kVA...
An explosion occurred at one of the main electricity substations serving Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, on a Thursday in late March 2026. The event affected several substations across a large area, leaving multiple suburbs without power. City Power, the...
Emergency services in New Doornfontein, Johannesburg, responded to a reported substation fire just before 6am. On arrival crews found the substation ablaze, and during the response an explosion occurred, causing a wall of an adjacent student residence...
A fire broke out in the early hours at the Bree substation in central Johannesburg, cutting electricity supply to large parts of the city centre including Newtown, Braamfontein, Bank City and Marshalltown. City Power, the municipal electricity utility, said...
A fire at City Power's Fort Substation in Johannesburg damaged electrical infrastructure and disrupted electricity supply to residents, businesses and public facilities. The outage affected parts of the Johannesburg CBD, Hillbrow, Braamfontein and Berea,...
City Power's Central substation in Marshalltown, in the Johannesburg CBD, has suffered a fourth fire, according to Eyewitness News reporting on 14 October 2026. The most recent fire broke out overnight and caused a further outage, following earlier outages...
A report dated 1 October 2026 says an underground fire at City Power's Central Substation in Johannesburg, in late September 2026, left large parts of the central business district without electricity. City Power's preliminary view, as reported, was that the...
City Power reported another fire at its central substation early on a Saturday morning, in a report dated 26 September 2026. The fire caused a power outage affecting Marshalltown and surrounding areas. The utility said it was the third fire at the facility in...
A fire broke out at the Cydna substation operated by City Power, cutting electricity supply to parts of Sandton and surrounding areas including Melrose, Illovo and Houghton in Johannesburg. The utility said the fire was preliminarily believed to have been...
Veld fires under high-transmission lines in City Deep caused the Prospect Substation in Elandsfontein to trip on Tuesday night, as reported on 7 August 2024. The flames caused two 88 kV breakers on transformers 1 and 3 to trip. Several substations fed from...
On 19 August 2024 City Power reported that the Sebenza Substation tripped because of veld fires. The outage affected customers in parts of Alexandra, the inner city, Midrand and areas served by the Reuven Service Delivery Centre. Johannesburg Emergency...
On 1 May 2024, a fire left parts of Johannesburg without power and forced some roads to close. Reporting described a blaze linked to the Fordsburg substation and said underground cables had caught fire. City Power said it was on site and that preliminary...
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