# [TOP STORY] Power restoration racket preys on desperate Joburg residents Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-power-restoration-racket-preys-on-desperate-joburg-residents Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-power-restoration-racket-preys-on-desperate-joburg-residents.md Podcast: [Moneyweb@Midday](https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224) Published: 2026-07-16T11:53:00+00:00 Episode link: https://iono.fm/e/1697116 Audio file: https://dl.iono.fm/epi/prov_216/epi_1697116_medium.m4a?p=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/moneyweb-midday-60224/episodes/top-story-power-restoration-racket-preys-on-desperate-joburg-residents Duration seconds: 365 ## Resource β€˜The people are desperate and these contractors or fake City Power officials are capitalising on that and asking residents for up to R1500 to restore power,’ says Anna Cox, investigative journalist at the Daily Maverick. Moneyweb ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/moneyweb-midday-60224/episodes/top-story-power-restoration-racket-preys-on-desperate-joburg-residents/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-power-restoration-racket-preys-on-desperate-joburg-residents.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.