{"id":63242,"date":"2014-07-02T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/63242\/man-refuses-to-pay-till-meter-is-fixed\/"},"modified":"2014-07-02T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:30:49","slug":"man-refuses-to-pay-till-meter-is-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/02\/man-refuses-to-pay-till-meter-is-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Man refuses to pay till meter is fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boet Human, of Symhurst, recently came into the Germiston City News offices to report a problem with his water meter.<\/p>\n<p>Human explained that the meter had been damaged by metro staff in October, 2013.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He haws since called the metro to have it repaired, but claims he is yet to receive any help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The metro has since cut off my power and water,&#8221; he said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They claim it is due to an outstanding account, but I refuse to pay this bill, as the damaged meter cannot be read to give a correct reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GCN was able to reach the metro for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A new water meter, 140002216, has been installed,&#8221; explained Lebogang Ramashala, of the metro&#8217;s department of communications and brand management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this stage it does not seem that the customer&#8217;s consumption was affected by the damaged meter and would warrant non-payment due to a &#8216;high account&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will, however, monitor the consumption on this new meter and, if account correction is necessary, we will adjust it accordingly.&#8221;<\/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='9e55511446d8d5fa8cbaaa046b9bf6bb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man blames faulty meter for high account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,8515,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,979,2730,1002,1004,1289,1449],"class_list":["post-63242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-water","tag-water-meter"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","water","water meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63242","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=63242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}