{"id":1323,"date":"2007-09-16T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-16T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T22:40:00","slug":"sabc-server-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/1323-sabc-server-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC server problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) website were greeted with an unexpected message on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The landing page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za<\/a> simple read &ldquo;We are experiencing problems with our SABC server. Please be patient with us as we rectify this problem&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the official website was not available, the company did however try to capitalize on the situation by adding the message &ldquo;If you need to pay your TV Licence, you may access the payment gateway directly by clicking here. For any TV Licence queries, please call 011-330 9555.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By the time of the publication on early Sunday morning the website was still down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=87659\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has been experiencing prolonged website downtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}