{"id":43707,"date":"2013-09-06T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=43707"},"modified":"2013-09-06T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:27:57","slug":"work-to-restore-power-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/09\/06\/work-to-restore-power-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Work to restore power underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro technicians are working around the clock to locate and repair various cable faults that have left parts of Germiston without power.<\/p>\n<p>Elsburg, Delville, Parkhill Gardens, Tedstoneville, Germiston South, parts of Primrose, Albemarle and the Castleviews area have been off since yesterday evening (September 5) due to faulty cables.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Furthermore, in a separate but related incident the team will this morning replace a transformer in the Solheim area.<\/p>\n<p>This is after a cable fault affecting Sun and Polaris streets led to the transformer failing yesterday evening.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur technicians are still trying to locate exactly where the cable faults are so that repair work can resume as soon as possible,\u201d said Sam Modiba, municipal spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The metro apologises for the inconvenience caused and assures affected consumers that work will continue until services are restored.<\/p>\n<p>It it is hoped that the power will be restored by the end of today.<\/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='2620e1332513cc8456f58c01089c2508'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The metro is working to restore power to many parts of Germiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":43708,"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":[1003,1373,979,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-43707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-germiston","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","electricity","germiston","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43707","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}