{"id":101822,"date":"2016-08-23T08:29:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101822"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T08:09:45","slug":"the-massive-damage-caused-by-telkom-saboteurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/101822-the-massive-damage-caused-by-telkom-saboteurs","title":{"rendered":"The massive damage caused by Telkom saboteurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has your online gaming, browsing, or streaming been spotty over the last week?<\/p>\n<p>Over <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/176643-telkom-sabotage-causes-outages-impacting-thousands-of-users.html\" target=\"_blank\">13,200<\/a><\/strong> Telkom users have been hit by outages this last week after the company&#8217;s lines were sabotaged.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely as a result of the ongoing Communication Workers Union strike which is currently well into its fourth week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of <strong>85 street distribution cabinets<\/strong> (SDCs) have been damaged in the past five days. Many of these SDCs have either been fully repaired or are partially repaired,\u201d said Telkom spokesperson Jacqui O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn areas where the work is still underway, the technicians are bringing streets back online as they complete the repairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those not partaking in the strike are also being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese incidents are examples of ongoing acts of intimidation by the CWU and the spike in sabotage is related to this industrial action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are not random acts of vandalism or incidents of cable theft. These people know where to go and what to do to wreak maximum damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MyGaming has a new logo \u2013 thank you for helping us choose it\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/101274-mygaming-has-a-new-logo-thank-you-for-helping-us-choose-it.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MyGaming has a new logo \u2013 thank you for helping us choose it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Radeon RX 480 vs RX 470 vs RX 460 \u2013 price and performance comparison\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100820-radeon-rx-480-vs-rx-470-vs-rx-460-price-and-performance-comparison.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Radeon RX 480 vs RX 470 vs RX 460 \u2013 price and performance comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to benchmark your gaming PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100467-how-to-benchmark-your-gaming-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to benchmark your gaming PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble with your internet? Over 13,200 Telkom users were hit with outages this week and things are only getting worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":81429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,21338,17586,21342,21340,2163,287],"class_list":["post-101822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-damage","tag-down","tag-line","tag-saboteur","tag-south-africa","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101832,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101822\/revisions\/101832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}