{"id":94752,"date":"2015-07-18T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=94752"},"modified":"2015-07-18T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:54:06","slug":"repair-works-underway-to-restore-power-to-part-of-germiston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/18\/repair-works-underway-to-restore-power-to-part-of-germiston\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair works underway to restore power to part of Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro is implementing measures to minimise the effects of the current power supply interruption affecting parts of Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>The interruption is due to the high voltage equipment failure that resulted in the explosion and burning of the Germiston South Extension Eight substation last night.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The metro\u2019s technicians continue to work tirelessly implementing repairs that started from the early hours of the morning in an attempt to make temporary power supply restorations.<\/p>\n<p>The affected areas are:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Tedstoneville;<\/li>\n<li>Dukathole;<\/li>\n<li>NCP;<\/li>\n<li>Swaswap;<\/li>\n<li>Parts of Germiston South Industrial area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cResidents and businesses are assured that the technicians will continue to work around the clock until power is fully restored to all areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe metro wishes to apologise for any inconvenience caused by the outage and urges residents and businesses to stay clear of the site while repair works are underway,\u201d said Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n<p>Related article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/94733\/technicians-working-to-restore-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technicians work to restore power\u00a0<\/a><\/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='24fab8e91bac772ca01ff2376ec08c46'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High voltage equipment failure blamed for power outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":88541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1041,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,1004],"class_list":["post-94752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","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":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["arrests","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\/94752","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=94752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}