{"id":50705,"date":"2026-11-11T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50705"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:59:44","slug":"malatsi-pledges-uninterrupted-sabc-broadcasts-despite-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malatsi-pledges-uninterrupted-sabc-broadcasts-despite-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Malatsi pledges uninterrupted SABC broadcasts despite power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi says the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will remain on air despite a power outage in and around Auckland Park, Johannesburg.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"ltr\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The power outage has been caused by damage to the Mayfair substation, which has disrupted electricity supply in many nearby suburbs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>City Power says it is working to restore electricity to affected areas.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Malatsi and the SABC management team are meeting to discuss plans to minimise further disruptions to broadcasts.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":50596,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-50705","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"City Power says it is working to restore electricity to affected areas.","published_date":"","news_description":"City Power says it is working to restore electricity to affected areas.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50707,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50705\/revisions\/50707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}