Faulty line causes Cape Town outage

Cape Town - Large parts of Cape Town were left without power on Wednesday morning due to a faulty Eskom power line leading into the city.



Kylie Hatton, spokesperson for the City of Cape Town, said "it was an Eskom problem, and various parts of the city had been left without electricity".



Eskom said a fault on the Muldersvlei/Acasia line had caused the problem, 567 CapeTalk reported.



According to Eskom, only parts of the Cape metropole had been affected, and not the entire Western Cape.



Eskom spokesperson Jolene Henn said technicians had been doing maintenance on the Muldersvlei/Acasia line when the disruption occurred.



Electricity has now been restored to parts of Cape Town.



- Were you affected? Send us your eyewitness accounts and photos