One of South Africa’s most important cities plunged into darkness

• A major unplanned area fault or infrastructure trip has caused a widespread power outage across Cape Town's northern and western suburbs this evening.
• Large parts of Cape Town were plunged into darkness on Monday evening, with the metro saying that a transformer had tripped and could not be restored due to network instability.
• Technical teams are investigating the root cause to isolate the fault and begin routing power back to the affected networks.