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Power Returns, Entire Household Celebrates Briefly

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RANDBURG — Following a 6-hour, 40-minute outage that ended unexpectedly at 9:17 p.m. Thursday, the Pretorius household erupted in approximately 90 seconds of collective celebration before returning to normal domestic activity, during which no one spoke of the event again.

The situation continues to develop.