{"id":920258,"date":"2022-01-28T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/large-parts-of-durban-hit-by-massive-power-outage\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:27:39","slug":"large-parts-of-durban-hit-by-massive-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/large-parts-of-durban-hit-by-massive-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Large parts of Durban hit by massive power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/587f0294-29f7-53f1-b2b9-dbad6baace27&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x47&#038;resize=960x540.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Durban &#8211; SEVERAL Durban suburbs are without electricity due a transmission fault.<\/p>\n<p>eThekwini Municipality confirmed that it is aware of outages across the city, including Madiba Valley, Somerset Park, Mount Edgecombe, Clairwood, the Bluff, Morningside and Westmead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Please note that we are aware of outages affecting these areas and our technicians are working on restoring power,&#8221; the municipality said.<\/p>\n<p>A resident in Hillary, who declined to be named, complained that they had no electricity since Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reported the matter. I have two reference numbers but nothing has been done about it. Food s defrosting. It has been over 18.5 hours now,&#8221; the resident said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Another resident, who also declined to be named, said he has been without electricity for 17 hours. <\/p>\n<p>The following areas are also affected: Ndengezi, Umlazi M, Umdloti\/La Mercy, Alverstone, Malukazi\/Lotus Park\/Orient, Malvern, Umlazi J Section, Hambanathi, Umhlanga, Somerset Park &#8211; Chedder Close, Engonyameni and Berkshire Downs\/New Germany.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a week the arty neighbourhood of Glenwood have been hit by several power outages that have left residents angry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It was unclear at the time of publishing when the electricity would be restored.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-8b57ee56f1e85d2685c3abd33a22ebe4\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban &#8211; SEVERAL Durban suburbs are without electricity due a transmission fault. eThekwini Municipality confirmed that it is aware of outages across the city, including Madiba Valley, Somerset Park, Mount Edgecombe, Clairwood, the Bluff, Morningside and Westmead. &#8220;Please note that we are aware of outages affecting these areas and our technicians are working on restoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}