The top five stories on www.germistoncitynews.co.za for the week, May 21 to 27, were:
1. Vehicle theft syndicate uncovered: https://bit.ly/1seI4UH
Members of the Germiston SAPS Reaction Task Team recently uncovered a vehicle theft syndicate. The officers were acting on a tip-off, regarding a 21-year-old man who was allegedly dealing in stolen motor vehicle parts. The officers went to the address given in Leondale and found three positively identified stolen vehicles: a red Toyota Corolla on a KwaTema case number, a blue Toyota Hi-Ace on a Meadowlands case number and a white Toyota Hi-Ace on a Sasolburg case number.
2. Equipment faults, theft and vandalism, Germiston’s power woes continue: https://bit.ly/27GYTbe
Several areas in Germiston were left without power from the early hours of last Thursday morning. The metro said an equipment failure at the main Elsburg substation had caused the outage and that power would be restored by midnight. However, many residents awakened to find they still had no electricity and the GCN was inundated with calls from residents wanting answers.
3. Residents fed up with metro: https://bit.ly/23Y7mlN
The Germiston City News received a call from an elderly Elspark resident. “I am at my wits end; the metro pruned the trees in the area and left the branches on the pavement. That was a month ago,” he said. He explained that each time they reported the matter to the metro residents were told that the pavements would be cleaned and the branches removed, but still nothing had been done.
4. Monday morning brings power blues again: https://bit.ly/25hbCCK
The GCN was aware of the fact that a power outage had once again affected numerous parts of Germiston, last Monday. Fishers’ Hill, Tedstoneville Extension One, Primrose, and other areas serviced by the Germiston North substation were left without power. The substation recently had maintenance done at it to help prevent such problems, however, this has not seemed to help.
5. A number of areas without power, again: https://bit.ly/1qIL1vs
The metro’s technicians worked around the clock to restore power after a transformer tripped and affected power supply to parts of Germiston North and Knights on Wednesday.
