{"id":95572,"date":"2015-07-30T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95572\/where-is-the-money\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T06:54:52","slug":"where-is-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/07\/30\/where-is-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Averil Berger from Primrose writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a daily newspaper on Friday, July 3, it was reported that the treasury had sold its Vodacom stake to the PIC, to fund Eskom\u2019s cash flow problems.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The stake was sold for more than R26-billion, according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>My question is: where has this money gone, when we are still experiencing daily power cuts of four to five hours?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As a senior citizen Eskom has already cost me R1 100 for computer repairs, not to mention daily costs for gas, paraffin and candles.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the R26-billion and for what is it being used?<\/p>\n<p>Is this just another cover up for gross incompetence?<\/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='7baeb66c39f752ff63296a3741410311'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resident fed up with load shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,18,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,3023,1106,979,969,2730,3024],"class_list":["post-95572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-eskom","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-load-shedding"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","eskom","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Load Shedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95572","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=95572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}