{"id":85151,"date":"2015-03-31T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=85151"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T07:19:16","slug":"load-shedding-prognosis-remains-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/31\/load-shedding-prognosis-remains-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Load shedding prognosis remains the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom this morning confirmed that the load shedding prognosis for today remains medium to high dependent on the performance of the power plant.<\/p>\n<p>The company continues to urge consumers to use electricity sparingly to ease pressure on the national grid.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In addition the company has confirmed that\u00a0chairman Zola Tsotsi\u00a0has stepped down.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement released this morning, the company said a constructive discussion was held between Eskom&#8217;s board and Tsotsi yesterday, where he has agreed to step down as both a director and chairman.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>On behalf of the board, Doctor Ben Ngubane thanked Tsotsi for what he\u2019s called \u2018the selfless decision\u2019 and has wished him well in his future endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom said Tsotsi decided to resign so that Eskom can focus on managing the power crisis and providing reliable energy.<\/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='ec721811e61b2ea5fa515964ceb95067'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance of national power plants dictate load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":85152,"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":[8297,1012,3023,1648,1106,979,969,2730,3024,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-85151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-eskom","tag-gauteng","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-load-shedding","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","eskom","Gauteng","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Load Shedding","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85151","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=85151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}