Crosby residents are furious after City Power claimed that a man who was electrocuted while trying to restore electricity in the Johannesburg suburb had opened a substation illegally and that it had blown up in his face.
They say City Power lied and that an official had, in fact, given residents permission to open the substation and restore power whenever the switch trips. They said they were also provided with a key to access it.
They denied that the substation blew up in the man's face and said he was electrocuted.
News24 went to the scene and found frustrated residents outside the substation.
They said they had experienced power outages 10 times a day, and that an official told them how to restore power to the area whenever the substation trips.
City Power was creating a false narrative, they alleged, because the power utility feared getting into trouble for not doing their job properly.
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