{"id":43754,"date":"2013-09-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/43754\/electricity-outages-frustrate-residents\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T07:17:17","slug":"electricity-outages-frustrate-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/09\/10\/electricity-outages-frustrate-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity outages frustrate residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in a large number of areas in Germiston experienced power outages last week.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN was inundated with queries after the power went out in various suburbs on Thursday evening.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The metro told the GCN that technicians worked around the clock to locate and repair three cable faults that left various suburbs in Germiston without power.<\/p>\n<p>Elsburg, Delville, Parkhill Gardens, Tedstoneville, Germiston South, parts of Primrose, Albemarle and the Castleview areas were affected.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Power was finally restored to all affected areas by Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in a separate but related incident the team had to replace a transformer in the Solheim area on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This was after a cable fault affecting Sun and Polaris streets led to the transformer failing on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The metro apologised for the inconvenience and assured affected consumers that work would continue until services are restored.<\/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='0ae56f8ea96a4ad55d383a942063b788'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power was finally restored to Germiston suburbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"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":[1003,1373,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-43754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","electricity","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754","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=43754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43754\/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=43754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}