{"id":79171,"date":"2015-01-23T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=79171"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T09:23:09","slug":"eskom-receive-bail-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/23\/eskom-receive-bail-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom to receive bail out from government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been reported that a potential multibillion rand government boost for cash-strapped Eskom could become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene confirmed that more than R10 billion will be allocated by the state to Eskom, but says details will be revealed in his first budget speech to be held next month (February).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The comepany has been battling to keep up with demands due to limited generating capacity, ageing infrastructure as well as several technical issues at a number of its power stations<\/p>\n<p>It has also been reported that Eskom needs to raise tariffs in order to recover some of its operating costs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Consumers will be hit with a 12.69 percent electricity tariff hike in April.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Eskom has also warned of rolling blackouts to relieve pressure on the national electricity grid.<\/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='e40138e2700d5b788516352b930df360'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt confirmed that over R10 billion will be allocated by the state to Eskom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":79172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1004,999,4319],"class_list":["post-79171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-eskom","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-load-shedding","tag-municipality","tag-police","tag-power-outages"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","eskom","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Load Shedding","municipality","police","power outages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79171","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=79171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}