Power outage to hit 11 Johannesburg suburbs

City Power will cut electricity for eight hours in 11 Johannesburg suburbs on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, and Saturday, 20 September 2025.

“The interruption is necessary to do maintenance work on our network, which is part of our programme of constantly striving to provide a better service,” mentioned City Power.

The outage will occur at Bekker Switching Station and at Heriotdale Substation.

SUBURBS AFFECTED BY POWER OUTAGE

These are the areas that will be affected by the power outage on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, from 9:00 to 17:00:

• Bekker Street between Le Roux and Allandale Road
• BP Filling Station
• Thornhill Office Park
• Waterfall Business Park

At Heriotdale Substation on Saturday, 20 September 2025, from 8:00 to 16:00, the power outage will affect these areas:

• Heriotdale
• Heriotdale Extensions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
• Doornfontein
• New Doornfontein
• Benrose Ext. 7
• Denver
• Denver Extensions 1 and 9

CITY POWER DISCONNECTS POWER FROM CUSTOMER WHO WAS ILLEGALLY CONNECTED

City Power Johannesburg disconnected a customer on Van Wyk Street in Roodepoort for illegally connecting to the grid and failing to settle outstanding debt.

The utility urged customers to pay on time and avoid illegal connections.

In a related case, City Power cut off a business that owes R1.2 million after it reconnected illegally for the second time.

Bomb Squad member Vicky Shuping said they will enforce credit control measures against the business.

“We are going to implement credit control now, and if we find that they have illegally reconnected, we are going to arrest them,” she said.