 City-wide power outage in Durban Vast swathes of the Ethiquinie municipality are without power as part of a city-wide blackout on Wednesday. Ethiquinie municipality spokesperson Gugu Cecilina said technicians were still investigating the cause of the outage which downed lines from Tong-8 to Imansum Toti. They are investigating the cause of the power failure and we are still waiting for the data regarding which areas have been affected she said. The municipality's electricity fault hotline crashed after it was flooded with calls in the wake of the major power outage. The call center is flooded with calls and the phones are ringing off the hook. We are trying to reach them as well Cecilina said. She would not be drawn to comment on a viral WhatsApp message that a substation in Marianne Hill had blown up resulting in the city-wide outage.