{"id":60799,"date":"2014-05-28T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60799\/engineers-worked-hard-to-restore-power-supply\/"},"modified":"2014-05-28T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:24:45","slug":"engineers-worked-hard-to-restore-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/28\/engineers-worked-hard-to-restore-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers worked hard to restore power supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of several areas in Germiston were left in the dark from Friday, May 23, to Sunday, May 25, and many want to know why.<\/p>\n<p>Following the power failure, Mandlakazi Mpahlwa-Sigcawu the divisional head of media relations, released the following statement: &#8220;The metro wishes to inform Germiston residents that several engineers have worked hard to restore the power supply in Germiston North, parts of Primrose and Meadowdale.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The outage occurred after a number of cables blew up at the Germiston North substation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The municipality apologises for the inconvenience caused,&#8221; added Mpahlwa-Sigcawu.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The community can report service delivery interruptions to the metro by contacting the call centre on 0860 543 0000, or on Twitter @EMM_Call_Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Updates are available on @EMM_Call_Centre and @EMMInfo.<\/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='e6546325933bd4b5124adb3b7bb293e4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents want to know what caused the weekend&#8217;s power failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":60804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1373,1552,979,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-60799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-outage","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","electricity","electricity outage","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799","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=60799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}