{"id":72099,"date":"2014-10-31T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72099\/da-says-metro-had-1-375-electricity-outages-in-eight-months\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T13:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:57:04","slug":"da-says-metro-had-1-375-electricity-outages-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/31\/da-says-metro-had-1-375-electricity-outages-in-eight-months\/","title":{"rendered":"DA says metro had 1 375 electricity outages in eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekurhuleni Metro has been paralysed by 1 375 electricity outages in the first eight months of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This equates to nearly six outages per day.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This was revealed in a reply to parliamentary questions asked by DA Member of Parliament Michael Waters.<\/p>\n<p>Outages were experienced across the metro, between January and August, as follows:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>January: 189<\/li>\n<li>February: 140<\/li>\n<li>March: 213<\/li>\n<li>April: 173<\/li>\n<li>May: 146<\/li>\n<li>June: 186<\/li>\n<li>July: 177<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;While I did ask for the reasons for each outage, the reply merely stated: &#8216;The reasons for these outages are currently being established&#8217;,&#8221; said Waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The frustration these outages place on families is unacceptable, with many not being able to bath and cook food, while businesses suffer due to lost productivity, which has a potential for job losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the core responsibilities of the metro is to ensure a constant and reliable supply of electricity to the residents and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they cannot provide this service then the residents should be seriously asking whether the current governing party is fit to remain in office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be asking follow-up questions in parliament, in order to determine what the causes are of the astronomical number of outages.&#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='b0a9a597bf2a7051731418b66f5713c9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Ekurhuleni having so many electricity outages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72124,"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":[1148,1003,1373,5364,979,969,2734,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-72099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-da","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-outages","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["DA","Ekurhuleni","electricity","electricity outages","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72099","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=72099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}