{"id":107398,"date":"2020-01-07T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=107398"},"modified":"2020-01-08T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T05:46:28","slug":"day-without-electricity-residents-complain-finger-pointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2020\/01\/07\/day-without-electricity-residents-complain-finger-pointing\/","title":{"rendered":"A day without electricity for Hendrina, residents complain about finger pointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One resident aired his disgrace stating that since the power outage, they have had no network or water, as a result of the power cut.<\/p>\n<p>As the town&#8217;s people reported the problem, the Pullenshope power station insisted that the fault did not lie with them and that it was the municipality who was working on cable faults.<\/p>\n<p>Eskom media spokesperson, Juanita Vogel, informed\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>, that the power outage is a result of a municipal cable fault.<br \/>\nEskom was requested to switch off their breakers, allowing municipal technicians to work on the cables.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The breakers have recently been turned back on and now the municipality needs to switch on the electricity from their side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STLM media spokesperson, Prudence Magutle, informed\u00a0<b>www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0that the municipality is aware of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot yet be confirmed when electricity will be restored to Hendrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hendrina residents who have been sitting without electricity since 18:00 yesterday grew fed up, accusing Eskom and the municipality of playing the blame game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":69418,"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":[10367,22602,22604,22603,10450,10366],"class_list":["post-107398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-betroubare-nuus","tag-hendrina-power-outage","tag-hendrina-power-outage-due-to-cable-fault","tag-hendrina-without-power","tag-middelburg-nuus","tag-plaaslike-nuus"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["betroubare nuus","hendrina power outage","hendrina power outage due to cable fault","hendrina without power","middelburg nuus","plaaslike nuus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107398","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=107398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}