{"id":98687,"date":"2015-09-17T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=98687"},"modified":"2015-09-17T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:43:31","slug":"eskom-prepaid-system-suffers-technical-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/98687\/eskom-prepaid-system-suffers-technical-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom prepaid system suffers technical glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom said on Thursday that prepaid customers may have been experiencing a slow\u201a intermittent or offline service when buying prepaid electricity \u201cbecause we are currently running our back-up system as we are attending to a technical problem with our main Prepaid Vending System\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It said customers should be able to purchase prepayment electricity at all the normal vending outlets during this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEskom apologises for any inconvenience\u201a and we would like to assure all prepaid customers that we are doing everything possible to make the system fully functional again\u201a\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of outlets or to find the nearest outlet\u201a customers can call the Eskom contact centre on 0860 037 566\u201a or visit www.eskom.co.za.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Eskom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/97653\/eskom-fails-performance-targets-pays-bonuses-anyway-da\/\">Eskom fails performance targets, pays bonuses anyway: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/96495\/eskom-has-no-backup-plan-after-pulling-coal-supply-deal\/\">Eskom has no backup plan after pulling coal supply deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eskom said on Thursday that prepaid customers may have been experiencing a slow\u201a intermittent or offline service when buying prepaid electricity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":77857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[25,1164],"class_list":["post-98687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-active","tag-eskom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98687","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98689,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98687\/revisions\/98689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}