{
  "id": 19503780,
  "title": "City Power completes 70% of Mayfair Substation repairs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/city-power-completes-70-of-mayfair-substation-repairs",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-11T13:40:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SABC News",
    "slug": "sabc-news",
    "url": "https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/city-power-completes-70-of-mayfair-substation-repairs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Johannesburg's City Power has announced that 70% of the repairs at the Mayfair Substation have been completed. This comes after a secondary explosion on Monday evening that caused widespread power outages across several neighborhoods. The disruption affected areas such as Auckland Park, Melville, and Brixton, and even impacted major entities like the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Sentech, and Garden City Hospital.\n\nCity Power's technical teams are now focusing on the remaining repairs, with the initial phase of restoring electricity expected to begin on Wednesday evening. The company's spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, emphasized that priority would be given to critical customers. \"City Power has finished 70% of the work at Mayfair Substation, with critical materials delivered and preliminary testing successful. Technical teams are currently working on the remaining repairs, and no major challenges are anticipated at this time. We are targeting the start of the first phase of electricity restoration by this evening, with a focus on critical customers like SABC, Sentech, Garden City Hospital, and others.\"\n\nVIDEO | City Power has outlined a three-phase plan for restoring power.",
  "summary": "City Power says it has completed 70% of the repair work at the Mayfair Substation.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}