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Sanral offices evacuated, e-tolls down
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Sinbad
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One of the sysadmins has smelly feet, and left his talcum powder in the bathroom.
Sanral wont give in. The it escalates to bombs. Innocent people get killed.
Compton_effect
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I hope not. One of their guys live on my street. :wtf: Just think what it would do to the property values!
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
SECOND SANRAL EVACUATION
The SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) operations centre in Centurion was evacuated on Friday and two people quarantined after another anthrax scare, police said.
"The Sanral offices were evacuated after an anthrax scare and we have specialists on the scene to see if the white powder found was anthrax," Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said.
"Two people have been quarantined and taken to hospital."
Mogale said more details were not immediately available.
Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona could not immediately be reached for comment.
On Tuesday, Sanral said the Gauteng highway tolling system was disrupted when Sanral's operations centre in Pretoria had to be evacuated. Mona could not say how the system was disrupted.
"Our priority is to ensure the safety of the people who work at the central operations centre," he said at the time.
The Tshwane hazardous material unit was called to the centre on Monday afternoon after a "suspicious envelope containing a white substance" was found on the premises.
This resulted in the shutdown of electricity and the evacuation of the building.
Mona said Sanral took the matter seriously and condemned this type of action because it was "tantamount to sabotage and borders on a very serious crime".
On Wednesday, Sanral said the substance found in the envelope was not dangerous.
Thirty-seven people were decontaminated and hospitalised as a precaution. All of them had been discharged by Wednesday morning.
At the time, CEO Nazir Alli said the evacuation did not compromise the toll collection process and toll gantries remained operational.
Source : Sapa /dm/hdw/ar/ks
Date : 24 Jan 2014 15:03
The SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) operations centre in Centurion was evacuated on Friday and two people quarantined after another anthrax scare, police said.
"The Sanral offices were evacuated after an anthrax scare and we have specialists on the scene to see if the white powder found was anthrax," Lt-Col Katlego Mogale said.
"Two people have been quarantined and taken to hospital."
Mogale said more details were not immediately available.
Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona could not immediately be reached for comment.
On Tuesday, Sanral said the Gauteng highway tolling system was disrupted when Sanral's operations centre in Pretoria had to be evacuated. Mona could not say how the system was disrupted.
"Our priority is to ensure the safety of the people who work at the central operations centre," he said at the time.
The Tshwane hazardous material unit was called to the centre on Monday afternoon after a "suspicious envelope containing a white substance" was found on the premises.
This resulted in the shutdown of electricity and the evacuation of the building.
Mona said Sanral took the matter seriously and condemned this type of action because it was "tantamount to sabotage and borders on a very serious crime".
On Wednesday, Sanral said the substance found in the envelope was not dangerous.
Thirty-seven people were decontaminated and hospitalised as a precaution. All of them had been discharged by Wednesday morning.
At the time, CEO Nazir Alli said the evacuation did not compromise the toll collection process and toll gantries remained operational.
Source : Sapa /dm/hdw/ar/ks
Date : 24 Jan 2014 15:03
daveza
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What for ?
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
I want to know the answer to that as well...
supersunbird
Honorary Master
Maybe to stop the aircons from "spreading the agent"?
Just a theory to their reasoning
daveza
Honorary Master
Yup, but surely they can turn the aircon off without everything else ??
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
If that would be their reasoning they need to fire their facilities manager, it should be incredibly easy to turn off aircon systems.. and their DC should be entirely seperate in terms of air circulation anyway.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
I do not support this type of activity.
I do not think it is beneficial or funny in any way.
We have the means to fight SANRAL already without resorting to this type of activity.
I do not think it is beneficial or funny in any way.
We have the means to fight SANRAL already without resorting to this type of activity.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
We don't really have anything other than SANRAL's word that this is the reason for the evacuation/disruption in e-tolling.
For all we know the systems themselves might just have fallen over, and anthrax scare was the easiest way to "cover it up"
+10
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
They handed the white powder in the mailed envelope to the forensices and toxicology team.
I highly doubt they would be mailing that to themselves.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Oh I do too, it just seems to me to be the kinda of amateur type of "cover up" that would be used in this country.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
cover up for what? They came up with the e-tolling system to make lots of money. I highly doubt they would jeopardise their little cash cow.
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
Cover up the fact that the whole system fell over all on its own? Why else would they have to turn off the electricity for the whole building?