The water supply interruption affecting residents in Vosloorus is due to a fault at Rand Water’s (RW) Mapleton system which occurred last night, 25 September. At the same time, technicians are closely monitoring RW’s Palmiet system which was damaged last week by a severe thunderstorm and later

Power has been restored to most of the areas that were left without power last week following a fire at the Witkoppie Substation last week Tuesday (19 September). Since Tuesday, technicians have been hard at work trying to restore power supply to the affected areas. Power was restored to Witfield, Anderbolt, and Yaldwyn substations later […]

GERMISTON – The City of Ekurhuleni has put plans in place to normalize waste removal services in the areas of Daveyton/Etwatwa/Wattville. The service was temporarily affected on Friday forcing the city to come up with a recovery plan. The recovery plan will swing into action on Monday and Tuesday. Monday DAVEYTON/ETWATWA WATTVILLE Tuesday: DAVEYTON/ETWATWA WATTVILLE […]

Power supply has been restored to some of the areas that were left in darkness when the Witkoppie Substation in Boksburg caught fire in the early hours of yesterday. The power was restored to Witfield and Yaldwyn around 15h00. Despite this development though, work continues in earnest to fix the substation and ensure that power […]

 Rand Water’s Zuikerbosch Water Treatment Plant powerlines were affected by the severe thunderstorm around midnight on Tuesday, 19 September 2023 and subsequently tripped the plant. The attempts to restart the plant revealed faults along the overhead power lines supplying the auxiliary plant. The power failure resulted in the loss of 2 000 Million Litres per […]

Large parts of the city are experiencing water supply interruption due to an electrical fault at Rand Water’s (RW) Zuikerbosch water treatment plant. The fault which started in the early hours of this morning has resulted in the insufficient water supply to customers in most parts of Kempton Park, Germiston, Nigel, Duduza, Tsakane, Brakpan, Bedfordview, […]

The City of Ekurhuleni is aware of a power outage affecting parts of Boksburg due to a fire that broke out at the Witkoppie substation in the early hours of this morning. The preliminary investigation indicates that a cable fault downstream may have caused the fire, damaging critical electrical components inside the substation. Technicians are […]