Pretoria West Power Outage - Live Tshwane Status

Yes - 13 resident reports have been logged in Pretoria West - currently affecting Danville, Claremont, Elandspoort. See the suburb list above for which areas are affected and click through for street-level detail.

No scheduled blackouts or planned maintenance windows are currently announced for Pretoria West. The City of Tshwane typically announces planned outages 24-72 hours in advance for transformer work, cable upgrades and substation maintenance. This page updates every 5 minutes.

8 suburbs are currently reporting power off in Pretoria West. The full list with live counts is at the top of this page. Each suburb name links to a street-level outage status page for that area.

Call the City of Tshwane on 012 358 9999 for any power outage in Pretoria West. This is the 24/7 fault-reporting line. You can also report online at powerfailure.tshwane.gov.za or SMS "power" with your account number to 082 612 0333. Have your street address and account number ready.

Most unplanned power outages in Pretoria West are restored within 4-8 hours. Minor faults like tripped circuits are usually fixed in 2-4 hours. Larger faults from cable theft, transformer damage or storm damage can take 12-48 hours. Planned maintenance typically lasts 6-10 hours during the day.

If your power is off outside the load shedding schedule, Pretoria West is experiencing an unplanned outage - not load shedding. Load shedding follows a fixed timetable. Power outages are caused by faults, scheduled blackouts for maintenance, or load reduction on overloaded feeders.