{"id":93637,"date":"2015-07-09T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93637\/residents-left-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2015-07-09T09:15:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T07:15:07","slug":"residents-left-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/07\/09\/residents-left-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents left in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlene Tucker, of Fishers\u2019 Hill, writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I live in Fishers\u2019 Hill and when I left for work recently my power was out, that was at 6am.<\/p>

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I arrived home at about 4.45pm and the power had been on for approximately an hour.<\/p>\n

At 6pm the power went out again and, hours later, it still had not been restored.<\/p>

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In the meantime, thanks to the council, I have an alarm that no longer works, an aquarium with dying fish and equipment that has blown, and a large amount of food in the fridge and freezer has been spoilt.<\/p>\n

I have tried following up with the call taking centre and they tell me there is a problem with a transformer, then they say they will send someone to my house, then it is cables.<\/p>\n

The metro did send someone out.<\/p>\n

One guy went up the light pole the other was trying to turn on the electricity in the water meter.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why they were trying to turn on the power, as it was not just my house that was out.<\/p>\n

In addition, a couple of weeks before this we had a 24-hour power failure in Vega Street after load shedding.<\/p>\n

We’ve just had to accept that nothing is maintained by the metro.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> The metro\u2019s spokesman, Themba Gadebe, said the recent outage was caused by an overloaded fuse that blew.<\/p>\n

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