{"id":8522,"date":"2013-08-05T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:50:38","slug":"city-of-johannesburg-apologises-to-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8522","title":{"rendered":"City of Johannesburg apologises to Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jozi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8523\" alt=\"jozi\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jozi.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>The City of Johannesburg has confirmed to eNCA that a pre-termination notice claiming arrears of over R6,000 was incorrectly delivered to Nelson Mandela&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The notice, addressed to a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Oaklands, was attached to Mandela house during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Kgamanyane Stanley Maphologela, Director of Communications and Customer Relations for the City of Johannesburg, the notice was incorrectly delivered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The address and account number belongs to another address. The City wants to convey an apology to the Mandela family for any inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The City has sent officials to the Nelson Mandela Children&#8217;s Fund to apologise for any inconvenience and will launch a full investigation into how the error occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maphologela pointed out that a pre-termination notice is not a cut-off notice, but rather a legal requirement informing customers that their power will be terminated if they fail to make payment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that a pre-termination notice is automatically sent to all customers if they are 30 days in arrears and is delivered by the City&#8217;s contractors. &#8211; eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Johannesburg has confirmed to eNCA that a pre-termination notice claiming arrears of over R6,000 was incorrectly delivered to Nelson Mandela&#8217;s house. The notice, addressed to a house in the Johannesburg suburb of Oaklands, was attached to Mandela house during the weekend. According to Kgamanyane Stanley Maphologela, Director of Communications and Customer Relations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of Johannesburg apologises to Mandela&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4755,327],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-city-of-johannesburg","tag-mandela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/jozi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}