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The fire gutted two main transformers and damaged other critical equipment. City Power s Isaac Mangena said investigations are still underway to determine what caused the blaze.
us in jo hannesburg, and the president is calling for calm as he s deploying the military. what effect is this having on the chaos? brianna, the chaos has been just all across the country, particularly where i m standing. you can see the military behind me. they re on a patrol. if you just join us here for a short moment, wait there, sir, the military has been trying to stop people from looting malls all across the city today. earlier there was just signs of complete impunity, people looting, taking what they can for hours. no real presence of the police until the military came in. there has been at least one instance of live rounds being used that i witnessed and as you can see, this would normally be a vibrant part of south joburg, it s the armies out here with the automatic weapons trying to restore calm. the president said he wants calm to be here in the country but really they haven t listened. this is all stemming originally