# Residents of Dobsonville Extension 3 and Island in Soweto, Gauteng, will be experiencing a power outage from 9am until 6pm today. This is due to scheduled maintenance on Eskom’s distribution network. Residents are urged to treat all electrical appliances as live throughout the outage for safety reasons. Eskom says the maintenance work is necessary to ensure the reliability of the power supply in the area. It adds that it has been working to address technical issues in several areas, particularly in the province, where network demand is high.
A 9-hour planned power outage to affect some Gauteng residents today