{"id":106631,"date":"2019-12-11T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=106631"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:21:58","slug":"update-bad-news-blackout-areas-work-continues-gholfsig-substation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/12\/11\/update-bad-news-blackout-areas-work-continues-gholfsig-substation\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Bad news for blackout areas as work continues on Gholfsig substation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Tshwete Local Municipality held an impromptu media briefing on Wednesday, realizing that residents needed answers.<\/p>\n<p>The Gholfsig substation caught fire on Monday afternoon, plunging the whole of Middelburg into a blackout. While electricity was restored to parts of Middelburg via the Verdoorn and Sipres substations, areas like Gholfsig, Mhluzi, Groenkol, Clubville, Mineralia, Middelburg Suid and parts of Aerorand still has no electricity since Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/106575\/severe-damages-gholfsig-substation-leaves-residents-without-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Severe damages at Gholfsig substation leaves residents without power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Municipal Manager, Mr Bheki Khenyisa, announced that STLM can still not give an accurate estimation of when these areas will receive electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The switching station was significantly damaged, with some of its parts needing full replacement. Two municipal electrical department and two contractors, Columbus and Eskom, are working around the clock to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/106533\/middelburg-faces-blackout-substation-catches-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Middelburg faces blackout after substation catches fire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>STLM extended an apology to all residents, assuring them that restoring electricity as soon as possible remains top priority.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality has vowed to give daily updates on progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Much more details revealed in this week&#8217;s edition of the\u00a0<i>Middelburg Observer<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The residential areas connected to the Gholfsig substation will continue to be without power for at least another night, in all probability even longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":106632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[22378,22376,22375,10010,12898,22374,10333,22377],"class_list":["post-106631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-estimated-restoration-time-for-gholfsig-substation","tag-gholfsig-substation-fire","tag-gholfsig-substation-news","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-no-electricity-as-work-continues-on-substation","tag-trusted-news","tag-when-will-gholfsig-substation-be-fixed"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["estimated restoration time for gholfsig substation","gholfsig substation fire","gholfsig substation news","local news","middelburg news","no electricity as work continues on substation","trusted news","when will gholfsig substation be fixed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}