{"id":74844,"date":"2014-12-01T11:43:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=74844"},"modified":"2014-12-01T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:55:07","slug":"cape-town-load-shedding-schedule-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/74844\/cape-town-load-shedding-schedule-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom load shedding schedule racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town&#8217;s load shedding schedule has &#8220;strong racist undertones&#8221;, the Congress of SA Trade Unions said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cosatu Western Cape secretary Tony Ehrenreich claimed power cuts for more advantaged areas took place during off-peak hours while poorer areas were without power at inconvenient times.<\/p>\n<p>City spokeswoman Priya Reddy said the schedule was co-ordinated with Eskom and affected all areas of the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The City of Cape Town rejects any notion that load shedding is determined according to the racial makeup of an area,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will in the coming weeks reshuffle the schedule so that different areas experience load shedding at times that are different from the current schedule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"No power cuts this week: Eskom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/74826\/no-power-cuts-this-week-eskom\/\"><strong>No power cuts this week: Eskom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Former Eskom CEO paid far more than thought\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/74650\/former-eskom-ceo-paid-far-more-than-thought\/\"><strong>Former Eskom CEO paid far more than thought<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Privatise Eskom says DA, No says ANC\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/74516\/privatise-eskom-says-da-no-says-anc\/\"><strong>Privatise Eskom says DA, No says ANC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town&#8217;s load shedding schedule has &#8220;strong racist undertones&#8221;, the Congress of SA Trade Unions said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1470,1164],"class_list":["post-74844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-cosatu","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74844","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=74844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74848,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74844\/revisions\/74848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}