Electrical faults in the eThekwini metro occur so often and in high amounts that formal load shedding has been suspended there.
The announcement was made in a public communication from the City on Thursday evening.
"Due to the large amount of electrical faults and outages currently in the City, the load reduction in accordance with load shedding has already been met. As a result, the formal load shedding programme will be temporarily suspended," the short statement read.