{"id":8048,"date":"2013-07-18T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:46:07","slug":"a-big-thanks-to-bernard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2013\/07\/18\/a-big-thanks-to-bernard\/","title":{"rendered":"A big thanks to Bernard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy\">\n<p><strong>J Lombard, Elspark, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would just like to ask Ekurhuleni what the call taking centre is actually for.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I have been reporting a street light problem since April 9.<\/p>\n<p>The lights in Elspark Extension One have been out for three months, from Kingfisher Avenue up towards Maroela Street.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>At last I came across the number of a brilliant, capable person by the name of Bernard Mbedzi.<\/p>\n<p>Just two minutes after I SMSed him I got a reply; this was on June 6.<\/p>\n<p>That same day Mr Mbedzi was at my house.<\/p>\n<p>He had never, ever got any message whatsoever regarding these street lights from the call taking centre.<\/p>\n<p>He came back about an hour later, stating that he had found the problem: a cable was damaged on the corner of Heidelberg Road and Kingfisher Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was rectified and we now have street lights.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Mr Mbedzi for the way you kept in touch and for seeing to the problem so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni needs more people like you, and maybe Germiston would become a better place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><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='48dfb0e62ef53dc160c26788433c2d1a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Elspark resident is pleased with the service he received from a metro employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":8051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[1003,1218,979,1217,1002,1167],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-elspark","tag-germiston","tag-letters-2","tag-metro","tag-opinion-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","elspark","germiston","letters","metro","opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}