Some 500 tourists were left stranded for nearly three hours on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town as load shedding bites. Table Moun...
Some 500 tourists were left stranded for nearly three hours
on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town as load shedding bites.
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company MD Wahida Parker
confirmed that around 500 people were on top of the mountain when a backup
generator failed to operate.
The cableway has a backup hydraulic drive and electricity
generators at both the upper and lower cable stations to ensure the cable cars
are not at risk during load-shedding.
“Power surges are believed to have caused the failure of
our generator. It failed to kick in because of the amount of times it switched
on and off, and eventually it took a toll," said Parker.
She said a decision had since been taken to close the
cableway - a major tourist attraction for the city - for a day.
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