{"id":1604,"date":"2004-06-11T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/11\/\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T00:03:43","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T04:03:43","slug":"1604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/1604\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iafrica.com\/news\/sa\/328305.htm\" rel=\"external\">Power failures plague Joburg, South Africa<\/a><\/strong><br \/>&#8220;The network of Johannesburg is old and was meant for the original mining industry,&#8221; said City Power vice president Silas Zimu. But as the city boomed, with commercial and residential expansion, so did demand for electricity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/power-grid.jpg\" alt=\"power lines\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>&#8220;Flattening one old Houghton property and building 20 townhouses means that there will be 20 stoves, 20 geysers, running on that property,&#8221; Zimu said. There was a huge demand for electricity with homeowners converting garages into cottages, working from home, shopping malls expanding, and clinics and schools being built, placing an enormous burden on the city&#8217;s power structure and the older narrow cables which have not all been replaced yet<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Electricity thieves&#8221;, mainly around Lenasia and Alexandra, make illegal connections which overload sub stations. The most brazen steal the whole sub-station, selling it for scrap. &#8220;I have put up a R10,000 reward to catch these people. Last week three people were arrested. They got R36 for the metal and caused an eight-hour outage,&#8221; said Zimu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power failures plague Joburg, South Africa&#8220;The network of Johannesburg is old and was meant for the original mining industry,&#8221; said City Power vice president Silas Zimu. But as the city boomed, with commercial and residential expansion, so did demand for electricity. &#8220;Flattening one old Houghton property and building 20 townhouses means that there will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}