Several areas in Cape Town lose electricity from about 6pm after a network fault, plunging parts of the city into darkness. The outage affects suburbs and other locations connected to the broader electricity network.
The City of Cape Town says its own infrastructure is operating and that areas supplied by the City have been restored by around 11pm. In explaining the cause, the City points to Eskom, indicating that the problem lies with the supplier’s network rather than with City-controlled systems.
The report frames the incident as a “mystery” outage due to competing accounts of responsibility between the City and Eskom. While the City presents its restoration timeline for City-supplied areas, the broader extent and cause of the fault are attributed by the City to Eskom’s network.
(Only one source was provided.)
