{"id":74178,"date":"2017-10-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/74178\/eskom-power-cuts-whole-town\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:52:35","slug":"eskom-power-cuts-whole-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/10\/23\/eskom-power-cuts-whole-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom power cuts whole town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday afternoon the lights tripped shortly after 14:00. Power was restored an hour later, only for the lights to again be switched off. Power was restored at around 19:30 that night.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon at about 12:00\u00a0electricity\u00a0again went off throughout the whole of Middelburg and was only restored at about 14:30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/73956\/new-report-blames-highveld-power-stations-almost-1-000-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\">New report blames Highveld Power Stations for almost 1 000 deaths<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eskom spokesperson Juanita Vogel confirmed that the two incidents over the weekend were related to an Eskom fault but exact details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur technicians are investigating the faults and we will provide more information as soon as the investigation is complete,\u201d said Ms Vogel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A power outage on Friday and again on Saturday resulted in the total blackout of Middelburg, Mhluzi and the Mall area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8479,2996,1369,8483,21966,8478,8480,8481,8482,4715],"class_list":["post-74178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-electricity-bill","tag-emalahleni","tag-eskom","tag-juanita-vogel","tag-middelburg","tag-power-cuts","tag-when-is-the-power-coming-back-on","tag-when-will-electricity-be-restored","tag-why-was-the-power-out","tag-witbank"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["electricity bill","emalahleni","eskom","juanita vogel","middelburg","power cuts","when is the power coming back on","when will electricity be restored","why was the power out","Witbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74178","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}