Over 1,200 City Power outages in two weeks leave Joburg buckling

Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility increasingly unable to cope with a localised crisis that councillors warn is sliding out of control. Daily Maverick’s Anna Cox reports.

Reporting by: Anna Cox 
Filmed by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi 
Produced by: Emilie Gambade 
Creative lead by: Malibongwe Tyilo 
Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme 

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