{"id":74004,"date":"2014-11-20T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/74004\/residents-suffer-extended-power-outage\/"},"modified":"2014-11-20T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:15:27","slug":"residents-suffer-extended-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/20\/residents-suffer-extended-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents suffer extended power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Elsburg and Tedstoneville were left in the dark last Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The power outage occurred at about 9pm and on Wednesday morning a resident in the area told the GCN it had not as yet been restored.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN asked the metro for comment on the matter and Themba Gadebe, the metro\u2019s spokesman said, \u201cThe outage was caused by a 33 kV fault in our main substation where we receive our supply from Eskom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPortion of the network was also vandalised during the outage due to attempted theft of cables and 6.6 kV equipment.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe fault had to be repaired before the substation could be energised and customers given supply, causing an extended outage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupply was restored to most customers at approximately 8am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remaining customers were off as a result of the vandalism and this was realised when electricity was restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepairs were done and power to all customers was restored.\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='4926c33b483efa21bd19b7973c5b45f1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable fault causes power outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74019,"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":[1003,1373,1318,979,969,2734,1002,1004,4320,4626,1838],"class_list":["post-74004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-elsburg","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power","tag-power-outage","tag-tedstoneville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","electricity","elsburg","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","power","Power outage","tedstoneville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74004","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=74004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}