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Our city needs your help!

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@CityPowerJhb @LyndaShacks community members have driven past the substation and posted pics - no one is there and they haven’t been there. See pics in comments above 😭

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@JustLurvingIt @CityPowerJhb @CityPowerJhb where is the team? Where? Not on site like ya’ll claim.

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@jasonherbert155 @CityPowerJhb They’re not even on site. Almost 24 hours later and no one has even checked what the problem is.

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@pennym07 @CityPowerJhb @CityPowerJhb @DadaMorero Look! We’re being lied to about test teams on site. No power since 6pm yesterday. No one has even looked at the problem. Shame on you for taking our money every month and giving us nothing for it.

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@CityPowerJhb We don’t believe these updates. What was the night shift team doing yesterday? Did they get paid for doing nothing? How about the day shift team who clocked in this morning? Where are they? Lies on lies. 🗑️🚮

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@WesternPulse88 Latest one happened on Friday night: https://t.co/vkUishdhh8

[Mark 🇿🇦 @markmywords]

South Africa’s silent tax: R45 BILLION a year stolen by copper cable syndicates from our SOEs.

Transnet alone lost R1.59 billion to crime in 2024/25. Eskom bleeds R5-7bn+ yearly, plus billions more to replace what thieves rip out.

That’s YOUR money. Bailouts, higher electricity tariffs, train delays, and crumbling infrastructure - all footed by taxpayers while syndicates get rich.

We’re subsidising organised crime destroying our future.

When does this end?

#CopperTheft #LoadSheddingTax #TransnetCrisis #Eskom #FixSA @GovernmentZA

RT if you’re tired of paying for their theft.

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@LyndaShacks @CityPowerJhb @Godsebutterfly @Our_DA @Ward102Jhb Thank you Lynda 🙏

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@CityPowerJhb @DadaMorero @CityofJoburgZA why are areas of Joburg out for days/weeks at a time? Look at the amount of areas without power. We need to know why. We pay every month. What’s going on? This isn’t the Joburg we want.

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@CityPowerJhb Copy paste of previous updates. Please post a statement from senior management explaining why the test branch teams and technicians are on a go-slow. Who’s benefitting? We are paying customers and we need to know why this keeps happening.

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@CityPowerJhb We need real reasons and real solutions. Copy and paste isn’t good enough. We need a statement from senior management. @CityPowerJhb @Godsebutterfly @LyndaShacks

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@CityPowerJhb This stinks of sabotage and corruption. Someone senior at City Power needs to explain why technicians only fix at night and test branch teams need to be called several times and spend days “looking” for faults. @Godsebutterfly @LyndaShacks

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@CityPowerJhb Unbelievable. The previous have been saying there are multiple faults. Why didn’t the test team pick them up? Something isn’t adding up. We need answers from City Power management.

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@JHBWater While fixing the water, apparently @JHBWater damaged a @CityPowerJhb cable and now parts of Bryanston have been without power for 4 days. They are still trying to locate the damaged cable.

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@CityPowerJhb Are they still looking for the fault which was caused by Joburg Water?

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@Mathape99970377 @CityPowerJhb 😡 they don’t care that someone can get seriously hurt or die

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@CityPowerJhb Monday power went out. Tuesday they acknowledged the problem and went to the wrong substation. Yesterday they were called, today they will look for the fault. Tomorrow they fix. So expect power on Saturday. No rush. There’s an old age home in Mill Hill but who cares.

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@CityPowerJhb These updates make no sense. The last update was that they were fixing the fault at Whitney. We are being messed around.

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@Mathape99970377 @CityPowerJhb Yip, I don’t know what is going on but the technicians take forever to get to the site and when they are there they’re extremely slow. Someone mentioned they’re on a go-slow. And we are the ones who suffer.