{"id":75039,"date":"2014-12-03T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=75039"},"modified":"2014-12-03T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T10:40:08","slug":"metro-technicians-work-restore-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/12\/03\/metro-technicians-work-restore-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro technicians work to restore power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GCN has received several reports from disgruntled residents of both Albemarle and Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n<p>Residents reported that their power has been out since yesterday (Tuesday) morning without explanation from the metro.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN approached the metro to get urgent comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The divisional head of the metro&#8217;s department of communication and brands management, Mandlakazi Mpahlwa-Sigcawu said, &#8220;The metro assures Germiston residents and businesses that technicians are working tirelessly around the clock to restore power to all the affected areas.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Power was reported to have gone off yesterday between 10am and 11am due to two damaged underground 33Kv ring feed cables supplying power to the Albemarle substation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The affected areas are Albemarle, Dinwiddie and Norton Small Farms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon investigating the cause of the outage, technicians discovered that the cables to be repaired are situated very deep underground, requiring the use of excavating machines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technicians drilled into one of the cables resulting in repair works taking longer than what was expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Power is expected to be restored this afternoon by 5pm (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the interim residents are urged to treat all electrical networks and equipment as electrically alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The municipality apologises for any inconvenience caused.&#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='f10c123f9d7ee616f2ff3dbddb78d1e0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power to be restored to Albemarle, Dinwiddie and Norton Small Farms by 5pm today &#8211; says metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":75040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1373,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004,4626,5864],"class_list":["post-75039","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-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power-outage","tag-repairs"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","electricity","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality","Power outage","repairs."],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75039","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}