{"id":47727,"date":"2013-10-16T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=47727"},"modified":"2013-10-16T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:37:14","slug":"warning-cape-town-pre-paid-electricity-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/47727\/warning-cape-town-pre-paid-electricity-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: pre-paid electricity shutting down in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the pre-paid electricity system in Cape Town should expect a temporary shutdown of the city&#8217;s vending system later this week, the city said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It would perform maintenance on the system from 9pm on October 19 to 5am on October 20.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown would disable all vending systems and affect online purchases of electricity. Consumers directly supplied by Eskom would not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-paid users were encouraged to buy all necessary electricity units beforehand to avoid being inconvenienced.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa\u2019s electricity price shock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/41218\/south-africas-electricity-price-shock\/\"><strong>South Africa\u2019s electricity price shock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom load shedding already in effect: analyst\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34759\/eskom-load-shedding-already-in-effect-analyst\/\"><strong>Eskom load shedding already in effect: analyst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Please reduce power usage: Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/33209\/please-reduce-power-usage-eskom\/\"><strong>Please reduce power usage: Eskom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eskom tariff hike scaled down\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/32573\/eskom-tariff-hike-scaled-down\/\"><strong>Eskom tariff hike scaled down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of the pre-paid electricity system in Cape Town should expect a temporary shutdown of the city&#8217;s vending system later this week, the city said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,2279,1808],"class_list":["post-47727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-cape-town","tag-electricity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47730,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727\/revisions\/47730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}