{"id":94790,"date":"2015-07-20T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=94790"},"modified":"2015-07-20T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:06:19","slug":"repair-work-to-restore-power-to-parts-of-germiston-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/20\/repair-work-to-restore-power-to-parts-of-germiston-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Repair work to restore power to parts of Germiston continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro technicians are currently working to restore the electricity supply to parts of Germiston which have been without power since the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>After working continuously for two days, technicians managed to restore power to areas supplied by the Germiston South Extension Eight substation yesterday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, they lost a feeder cable this morning, resulting in another outage in Tedstoneville, Dukathole, Swaswap and parts of the Germiston South Industrial area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, there was a cable fault at the substation which caused an outage on Thursday night.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was repaired and after technicians switched on Friday night, a panel exploded and caused a fire at the facility,\u201d said Ekurhuleni spokesman Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>Work is currently underway to restore power to the areas as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality apologises for any inconveniences caused.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/94733\/technicians-working-to-restore-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technicians working to restore power<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/94752\/repair-works-underway-to-restore-power-to-part-of-germiston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Repair works underway to restore power to part of Germiston<\/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='f52f2c4878f764793c0d250a33611671'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power has once again been affected in parts of Germiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":94791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,8515,2],"tags":[1418,1003,1373,979,969,7956,2734,1002,1004,4320,7957,1838],"class_list":["post-94790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dukathole","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-electricity","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-south-industrial","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-power","tag-swaswap","tag-tedstoneville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["dukathole","Ekurhuleni","electricity","germiston","germiston city news","germiston south industrial","melissa hart","metro","municipality","power","swaswap","tedstoneville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94790","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=94790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}