{"id":14526,"date":"2020-02-04T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=14526"},"modified":"2020-02-04T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:15:29","slug":"eskom-illegal-connections-go-up-fast-residents-protect-each-other-soweto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/eskom-illegal-connections-go-up-fast-residents-protect-each-other-soweto\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskom illegal connections go up fast, residents protect each other, Soweto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see how the residents of Soweto, South Africa, are getting smart, not only do they not pay for electricity but they now blow whistles to alert the community if Eskom dare try to remove any of the illegal connections. The example set by the ANC has caused that corruption and crime have flourished and become the norm In the country.<\/p>\n<p>Residents simply reconnect themselves after being cut by the embattled Eskom who now have no or very little control over the theft and non payment.  <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lHWiQK4wXh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/soweto-owes-eskom-r17-billion-half-of-entire-countrys-debt-to-eskom\/\">Soweto owes Eskom R17 billion \u2013 half of entire country\u2019s debt to Eskom<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Soweto owes Eskom R17 billion \u2013 half of entire country\u2019s debt to Eskom&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/soweto-owes-eskom-r17-billion-half-of-entire-countrys-debt-to-eskom\/embed\/#?secret=lHWiQK4wXh\" data-secret=\"lHWiQK4wXh\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see how the residents of Soweto, South Africa, are getting smart, not only do they not pay for electricity but they now blow whistles to alert the community if Eskom dare try to remove any of the illegal connections. The example set by the ANC has caused that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[30,491,51,641,2489,8785,5432,8786,130,1642],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-anc","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-electricity","tag-eskom","tag-illegal-connections","tag-loving-life","tag-non-payment","tag-soweto","tag-soweto-news"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=666EwwJ6P64","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}