Eskom Power outage in Vaal Marina from 5th Aug ongoing

We in Vaal Marina were informed by our Midvaal municipality that there would be a 3 day power outage which commenced at 06h30 on Tuesday 5th August to allow Escom to carry out necessary maintenance on the transformer at our local substation - which I believe falls under Grootdraai? Power was restored briefly on Fri at 15h30 until 18h00. Then we heard that cables were ******. They were replaced(?) only to hear the transformer had 'cooked'. We are still without power to date - Thurs 14th and Midvaal municipality reports that they have no actual confirmation from Escom as to when power will be back; we are led to believe this could drag on thro next week or God forbid, even longer?!

Some residents are lucky enough to have solar power installation or run generators; highly noisy & fuel hungry! But a lot of others do not have any such recourse. I believe there is a generator powering our water supply & treatment plants. Not fun at all, and still 'in the dark' as far as to when our lovely village will be back to normal? And to add to my wors my email to Eskom customer services bounced back 'undelivered' - par for the course, methinks?!