City Power

In some communities, you've got some smaller repair works that have to be done on certain transformers.

And City Power says it doesn't have a budget and maybe this one million rands could go a long way in terms of that.

Of course, the procurement must still be safeguarded properly so that there aren't leakages, but it must be also in a policy framework that allows for ease of purchasing within the market value and not an overly tenderized process.

But I think, I mean, that's a fundamentally revolutionary idea.

That's critical so that I understand the numbers.

Once I understand the numbers, that's when we can then prioritize making sure that people of Johannesburg um they get water reliable water when they open their tips their tips um they've got clean drinkable water but to do that one of the things that i will do in 100 days before end of february by then i would have already presented to council um an institutional review i've got to start the process of collapsing this municipal entities like job water city power and so forth Obviously, that's a process that would take about a year.

But as soon as I present a report to council to allow me to collapse these entities.

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I will save money that goes to this board so that, honestly, they're a liability to our city.

Secondly, I'll speed up service delivery.

Once we know what the budget looks like, I don't have to really go through the board of city power to approve the projects and things that we need to do.

Directly reporting to the city manager.

Treasury should in any case focus on cutting fruitless state expenditure, thereby creating room for future tax relief.

In other news, City Power has appealed to the police and the Department of Defence for military intervention to help secure the city of Johannesburg's power grid.

This is due to escalating theft, vandalism and sabotage of critical electricity infrastructure reported across the metro.

In the latest incidents, the Bromfontein substation was vandalised and cables were stolen.

Here's City Power spokesperson Isaac Mungena.

We add residents and businesses to report suspicious activities around substations and also underground tunnels to our security risk management control room so that we can then be able to activate some responses.

Protecting our electricity network requires a coordinated effort and we cannot allow these repeated attacks to really continue threatening the reliable supply of electricity to our communities.

Yeah, it's got about 13 entities.

Like for electricity, it has got city power.

It's got Joburg water, Joburg parks, Johannesburg social housing company.

It's got the fresh produce market.

But that money is taken to the group level.

And it's not ring-fenced for the functions of GRE.

Same with city power as well.

Where city power sells electricity to end users, gets paid, but it's paid to the central level.

This work follows assessment of the fire damaged infrastructure to determine the safest and most reliable approach to restoring electricity.

City Power recognizes the hardships that this prolonged outage

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There was an explosion at the central substation last night.

That was while city power technicians were busy on site restoring electricity supply to areas that include parts of the Joburg CBD, Marshalltown and Salby.

They were off again after Tuesday's fourth fire at the embattled substation in just more than a month.

Smoke could be seen bellowing from the substation last night.

The extent of the damage and the cause of the explosion have yet to be established and the incident is further a setback to the restoration work which is currently underway at the substation.

City Power's Isaac Mangena says at this stage, no timeline on when the restoration will be completed.

With now just 20 days until the local government elections, the Constitutional Court will this morning deliver its ruling on the candidate list battle between the ANC and the Electoral Commission.

The case centres around the 181 ANC candidates who didn't submit their final lists properly and have been omitted from the IEC's lists.

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to collapse these city entities like City Power, Jobe Water, Josko, JPC.

All these entities are a drain, unnecessary bureaucracy.

What I need to do, come out with the institutional review, let them, the city power will still be city power, but run, led by a qualified electrical engineer, someone in that space who understand.

And he must then put together his own team that report directly to the city manager.

I don't need a board of directors and compliance with the Companies Act.