Namibia experiences third blackout

NAMIBIA on Friday experienced the third countrywide power outage this year when a technical problem occurred at the Auas sub-station east of Windhoek, which caused the Auas/Kokerboom 400kV line to trip. NamPower spokesperson Tangeni Kambangula confirmed the outage, and said the power utility was still investigating the cause. The blackout, which Kambangula said NamPower did not expect, affected the central, central northern and western parts of Namibia, and lasted for up to three hours. “Although NamPower does everything in its power to prevent any technical glitches, unforeseen faults are not an uncommon phenomenon and can be experienced at any time,” she stated. Some people had fun on Facebook, jokingly posting that they wished the blackout happened while they were in a shop or in a bank that they could rob to end their financial woes.