{"id":96681,"date":"2015-08-11T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96681\/gauteng-faces-a-fuel-shortage\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T10:54:11","slug":"gauteng-faces-a-fuel-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/11\/gauteng-faces-a-fuel-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng faces a fuel shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRA CEO Reggie Sibiya said the shortage of fuel was the result of a shutdown of a refinery in Durban due to unplanned maintenance, and disruptions at Sapref, a joint venture between Shell SA Refining and BP Southern Africa, also in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe hope the disruptions do not last more than a week; everything is being done to return the situation to normality,\u201d Sibiya said, adding that more than a 100 filling stations were affected.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Petrol pumps reportedly started running dry on Saturday, prompting motorists to queue at filling stations, especially in townships.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><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='f68ff6fd880469442fab0d2544c9dd21'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng has been hit by shortages of fuel, with retailer BP the most affected, the Fuel Retailers Association (FRA) said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":96682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8142,8143,1648],"class_list":["post-96681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-fuel-retailers-association","tag-fuel-shortage","tag-gauteng"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Fuel Retailers Association","Fuel shortage","Gauteng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96681","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}