By Thabo Monyela
POLOKWANE- The City of Polokwane has announced a planned long-hour electricity outage, which will leave many areas of the municipality without electricity for eight hours on Friday,10 March 2023.
The city residents, businesses and other stakeholders would have to brace themselves for an eight-hour power outage that is planned to be implemented from 08h00 am until 16h00 on Friday.
The municipality says the eight-hour electricity interruption is due to the repairs to be done on the broken earth wire on the Alpha 66 KV line and the installation of new high-voltage equipment at the Gamma substation.
THE PLANNED ELECTRICITY BLACKOUTS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
SAB
SABC
Coca-Cola
Mall of the North
Savanah Mall
Makro
Gateway Airport
Game
Correctional Services
Pholosho Hospital
Provincial Hospital
Industrial
Bendor
Thornhill
Celtic Lodge and Meadows
Sterpark
Fauna Park
Serala View
Magna Via
Eduan Park
Welgelegen
Waterbury
Eagle Crest
Emdo Park
Rethabile Gardens
Mahlako a Phaahla
Mahlasedi
Turfloop line
Disteneng
Ladine
Ladana
Futura
Laboria.
The city further cautioned all affected areas to treat all electrical wiring as live and to switch off all appliances to avoid injury and damage once the power supply is restored
