Overstrand Municipality has announced that residents of Gansbaai should expect to be without power on Thursday 7 December.
OM Municipal Manager Dean O’Neill stated: “An Eskom outage has been scheduled for the Greater Gansbaai area on Thursday 7 December from 06:00 to 18:00. The alternative date for this is 8 December.”
The outage will affect all municipal customers in the greater Gansbaai area, from De Kelders to Pearly Beach.
“The 12-hour electricity outage is necessary for Eskom to perform maintenance on the Gansbaai substation and also to conduct work at the new 66kV feeder in Gansbaai,” O’Neill explained.
The municipality emphasised this should not be confused with the power outage that has been scheduled for the Hermanus and Gansbaai area for 25 January. The alternative date is 1 February 2024.
This outage, which takes place from 06:00 to 18:00, will affect the following areas: Gansbaai, Stanford, Hermanus, Sandbaai and a few streets in Onrus.