{"id":92155,"date":"2015-06-22T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92155\/metro-still-hasnt-refunded-elspark-resident\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T06:49:16","slug":"metro-still-hasnt-refunded-elspark-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/06\/22\/metro-still-hasnt-refunded-elspark-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro still hasn\u2019t refunded Elspark resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8221;Upset&#8221;, from Elspark, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two months ago the metro installed new water meters in Sapele Street, in Elspark.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Since the installation I have been wrongfully charged thousands of Rand for water.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted the metro to clear up the matter but still have not been credited for the money I was wrongfully charged.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The GCN contacted the metro about this matter and received the following statement from the senior media officer of the metro\u2019s communications and brand management department, Lebogang Ramashala: \u201cIt is herewith confirmed that the relevant correction has been done, and the account record currently reflects that the account is indeed paid in advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correction will reflect on the resident\u2019s June 2015 account statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe metro sincerely apologises for any inconvenience caused.\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='6284271ede77958d450f3d97156122dc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident wrongfully charged by metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-92155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92155","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=92155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}