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News24 reports that City Power terminated 110 teams of contractors in the City of Johannesburg on Wednesday, sparking fears that residents would suffer even more amid ongoing load shedding and power outages.
However, spokesperson Isaac Mangena said new contractors had already started working on Thursday. "The new contractors will be held to higher standards, and customers will see some of the changes in the work done for them. Some previous contractors were not credited by industry bodies to do certain work on our network, which is the loophole that City Power is closing. The new contractors are ... qualified and credited to provide 10 key solutions, which is really to reduce the amount of time we spend on outages and save us on resources," Mangena indicated. He went on to report that the term of the old contractors ended three years ago and was renewed on a three-month basis until new contractors could be sourced. Mangena said most of the new contractors had worked with City Power on bigger projects such as electrification and maintenance. Ward 73 Councilor Eleanor Hugget commented that that while the old contractors often didn't do a good job, they did help. "While these contractors often did a shoddy job, they at least could get out to an outage to see what was happening. And they had a repair truck,” she observed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tshepiso Motloung at News24
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