{"id":180423,"date":"2024-09-12T04:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rehoboth-up-in-arms-over-power-outages\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T04:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:24:20","slug":"namibia-rehoboth-up-in-arms-over-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rehoboth-up-in-arms-over-power-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Rehoboth Up in Arms Over Power Outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Residents of Rehoboth are outraged over regular power outages the town has been experiencing since last month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Some residents say they have experienced losses &#8211; their electric appliances have been damaged, they have had to change important plans and food has spoiled during the persistent interruptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;In Block G, the electricity went off yesterday evening, and only came back on this morning. This is not right,&#8221; Sally Beukes, a resident says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Rehoboth Town Council (RTC) has, however, taken to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090635.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Rehoboth are outraged over regular power outages the town has been experiencing since last month. Some residents say they have experienced losses &#8211; their electric appliances have been damaged, they have had to change important plans and food has spoiled during the persistent interruptions. &#8220;In Block G, the electricity went off yesterday evening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7008,4706,724,257,16855,7047,2358,254],"class_list":["post-180423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arms","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-outages","tag-power","tag-rehoboth","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}