{"id":108466,"date":"2015-12-17T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108466\/metro-takes-three-months-to-repair-cables\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T06:31:04","slug":"metro-takes-three-months-to-repair-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/17\/metro-takes-three-months-to-repair-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro takes three months to repair cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Engledow, a business owner in Elsburg, was furious when his business was left without power for three months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers from the metro dug trenches in Machine Street, cutting through several cables in the process,\u201d he explained.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThese live wires were left exposed for months and my business without power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite contacting the metro on numerous occasions he has received no answers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He contacted the GCN in the hope that he would finally receive some answers.<\/p>\n<p>After a query was sent to the metro the GCN received a statement from Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro, who claimed that the trenches had been dug so that metro workers could locate a cable fault reported in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers battled to find the faults hence the trenches and cables were left open till the faults had been repaired,\u201d Gadebe said.<\/p>\n<p>Power was reportedly restored to the company last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108463\/water-leaks-for-days-in-delville\/\" target=\"_blank\">Water leaks for days in Delville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107851\/resident-shocked-at-service\/\">Resident shocked at service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107324\/resident-reduced-to-asking-neighbours-for-water\/\">Resident reduced to asking neighbours for water<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107209\/residents-furious-over-reservoir-leak\/\">Residents furious over reservoir leak<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d6eb027a63dedf7a8d0d37026701d759'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsburg business owner desperate for answers from the metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-108466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}