Local News
Heavy storm devastates Mangaung residents─── 14:54 Tue, 01 Nov 2016
Bloemfontein - Almost the entire city of Mangaung experienced a heavy storm wind which left dozens of families and many homeless people devastated in the early hours of Tuesday.
The heavy storm wind also affected and caused serious damage to Centlec's electricity equipment in many parts of the Mangaung area, thus affecting normal distribution of electricity supply, especially in the southern parts of the city.
An estimate number of more than 57 poles are already reported to have been affected and some are already down because of this heavy wind.
Centlec would like to caution community members to be extra careful of this situation and treat all poles that are down and on the ground as live and dangerous.
We appeal to the community to treat all the installations live and dangerous as power supply may be restored at any time without notice.
We have dispatched all our technical teams to urgently attend to this emergency situation to help normalise and restore the situation.
This may, however, take more than our normal estimated turnaround time due to severity and huge damage caused by this heavy storm.
Statement issued
