{"id":71546,"date":"2014-10-24T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71546\/despite-the-recent-water-crisis-metro-still-takes-weeks-to-repair-leak\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T07:08:59","slug":"despite-the-recent-water-crisis-metro-still-takes-weeks-to-repair-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/24\/despite-the-recent-water-crisis-metro-still-takes-weeks-to-repair-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite the recent water crisis metro still takes weeks to repair leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston City News recently received a call from Nico Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed there has been a water leak outside his home in Deodar Street, Primrose East, for the past three weeks.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He, like many residents, had reportedly called the metro several times and was yet to receive any assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to find out:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0When will this leak be fixed?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Why did it take so long to address the issue \u2013 as the leak has been there for three weeks?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0What measures are the metro taking to avoid this type of water wastage \u2013 with the recent water shortage still fresh in residents&#8217; minds?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senior media officer Lebogang Ramashala, of the metro\u2019s department of communication and brand management, release a brief statement, saying: \u201cThe leak has been attended to and repaired.\u201d<\/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='e9a5fa82780396cc45375d9f46428bd5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water leak finally repaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71581,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,3563],"class_list":["post-71546","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","tag-water-leak"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","water leak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71546","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=71546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}