Sarepta, Kuils River is one of the Cape Town areas that will electricity disruption twice this week. Photo: Storm Simpson.
It’s not load shedding: These Cape Town areas will be without electricity from Monday to Sunday
From Monday to Sunday, areas including Pinelands, Salt River, Kuils River, Strand and others, will experience power cuts because of planned maintenance on electrical infrastructure.
Sarepta, Kuils River is one of the Cape Town areas that will electricity disruption twice this week. Photo: Storm Simpson.
Several areas in the City of Cape Town metro will be without electricity sometime this week as the City continues its maintenance work on electrical infrastructure. The work is expected to start on Monday, 6 December and conclude on Sunday, 12 December. No maintenance is planned for Saturday.
DOUBLE IMPACT OF LOAD SHEDDING AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE A POSSIBILITY
The City of Cape Town said that because Eskom implements load shedding at short notice – as we have seen over the weekend – some areas could be doubly impacted by load shedding and planned maintenance power outages, especially during lower stages of load shedding.
“From load-shedding Stage 4, planned maintenance is usually stopped due to the staff capacity required to implement load-shedding. Capacity might necessitate the stopping of maintenance work at lower stages too,” said the City.
WORK ON ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONTINUES
The City said routine planned maintenance will take place daily in various areas across the metro.
Residents are advised to switch off appliances at the wall socket ahead of the maintenance to reduce the potential damage that could be caused by power surges.
“The supply could be restored at any time, therefore residents should remember to treat all electrical installations as live for the full duration of the interruption,” said the City of Cape Town.
The areas affected by planned maintenance are:
| DATE | AREA AND STREET | START TIME | EXPECTED END TIME |
| Monday, 6 December | Bergvliet: Ruskin, Vineyard, Alban, Stark, Midwood, Protea, Lake View, De Rust, Mutual and Pekalmy | 8:30 | 16:00 |
| Pinelands: Union and vicinity | 9:00 | 14:00 | |
| Tuesday, 7 December | Claremont: Bassett, Pinetree and vicinity | 6:00 | 16:00 |
| Somerset West: Emerald, Topaz and vicinity | 8:30 | 18:00 | |
| Somerset West: La Montagne Complex, Bakkerskloof | 8:30 | 18:00 | |
| Sarepta/Kuils River: Planet | 8:00 | 16:00 | |
| Muizenberg: Holland, Albertyn, Cleveland, Cromer, Wherry, Cap Michelle, Scopus, Watson, Royal, Main and vicinity | 8:30 | 16:00 | |
| Tafelsig: Linda and vicinity | 8:00 | 16:00 | |
| Wednesday, 8 December | Salt River: Loco Road | 8:00 | 16:00 |
| Rondebosch: Eureka off Campground | 8:30 | 16:00 | |
| Newlands: Conifer Way, Cherry and vicinity | 9:00 | 16:00 | |
| Zonnebloem: Blinde | 9:00 | 16:00 | |
| Tokai: Brocker, Birchwood, Ebony, Bluegum, Dalmore, Anderson, Myrtle, Beech, Paddock, Dennedal and vicinity | 8:30 | 16:00 | |
| Thursday, 9 December | Woodbridge Island | 8:00 | 16:00 |
| Sarepta/Kuils River: Komet and Venus | 8:00 | 16:00 | |
| Somerset West: Slabbert, Paris and vicinity | 8:30 | 18:00 | |
| Tafelsig: Martin, Meagan and vicinity | 8:30 | 18:00 | |
| Friday, 10 December | Hout Bay: Nooitgedacht, Luisa, Silvertree and vicinity | 6:00 | 18:00 |
| Sunday, 12 December | Brooklyn: Koeberg Road and Clarendon Crescent | 00:05 | 6:05 |
| Somerset West: Niblick and Jigger | 6:00 | 18:00 | |
| Strand: Idlemor, Young Street | 6:00 | 18:00 |
The information in the table above was correct at the time of publication.
