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News24 reports that City Power has called on the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) to escort technicians and operators into hotspot gang areas when repair works are being done.
Technicians have been deployed to Hursthill areas, which include Westbury, Claremont and the surrounds, to deal with outage backlogs. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena said they were cautious about the safety of employees, but teams continued to respond to outage calls. "On Sunday, the outage calls from Hursthill Service Delivery Centre were reduced to only 192, with 90 of those [calls coming in] over the past 24 hours," Mangena indicated. The CEO of City Power, Tshifularo Mashava, and local councillors were out over the weekend to assure residents that their concerns were being addressed. He said: "We apologise about the panic created by our curtailment informed by the concerns of violence. Should there be further threats, the JMPD has agreed to escort our teams to ensure there are no disruptions to [the] power supply." The leader of the Patriotic Alliance, Gayton Mackenzie, was in Westbury to provide assistance to City Power and to "ensure the ongoing gang violence in the area doesn't interrupt essential service delivery".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24
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