DA Gauteng says residents in East Joburg have suffered over 100 power outages [SOUND]

# The DA in Gauteng says residents in East Johannesburg suburbs have suffered 144 power outages since January last year, due to failures at the Observatory and Bellevue substations. About 100-thousand people are affected in Observatory, Yeoville, Bellevue, Cyrildene, Bruma, Dewetshof, Bez Valley, Kensington, Malvern, and surrounding suburbs. The DA’s Jack Bloom says according to Cooperative Governance MEC Jacob Mamabolo, despite repairs and partial upgrades to both substations, the electricity supply remains unstable: