{"id":122030,"date":"2016-05-19T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122030\/equipment-fault-leads-to-outage\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T07:03:17","slug":"equipment-fault-leads-to-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/19\/equipment-fault-leads-to-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Equipment fault leads to outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Germiston areas were left without power once again this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The affected areas include:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Tedstoneville;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Parkhill Gardens;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Delville;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Elsburg;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Germiston Central.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro to find out what has caused this outage and when power would be restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn equipment fault at the main Elsburg substation was the cause of the outage,\u201d said metro spokesman Themba Gadebe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEkurhuleni technicians are currently on site carrying out repair works and power is expected to be fully restored by midnight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The metro apologised to the community for the inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/111761\/report-any-municipal-problems-to-the-metroordont-lose-these-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is wrong with the Germiston power system?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120674\/reporting-metro-complaints-to-the-gcn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reporting metro complaints to the GCN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120349\/road-still-a-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\">Road still a mess<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/119078\/trenches-still-lying-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trenches still lying open<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118523\/primrose-pothole-continues-to-grow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Primrose pothole continues to grow<\/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='d36588560849b5331b607fb56cb9da6d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Germiston suburbs were left without power after an equipment fault at the main Elsburg substation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":121591,"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-122030","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\/122030","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=122030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}