Sanral e-toll offices evacuated again
The Midrand offices of the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) have been evacuated for the second time in four days.
The e-tolling system has not been impacted, with only the call centre affected, Sanral said.
Sanral issued the following statement on the incident:
Another incident has occurred at the Central Operations Centre this afternoon. It should be noted that the system is fully operational and that only the Call Centre services are affected.
Electronic Toll Collection, whose staff occupy the building, will be issuing a statement shortly.
Eyewitness News reported that e-tolling collection company, ETC, confirmed that the road agency’s Midrand offices had been evacuated Friday afternoon, but could not confirm why.
An investigation is believed to be underway, while Jacaranda FM’s news team has reported that two people have been taken to hospital as a safety precaution.
On Tuesday (21 January), staff at the road agency’s head office had to evacuate after an unidentified white powder was delivered to the premises, feared initially to be anthrax.
Employees were evacuated, with some 30 employees having to be decomtaminated and hospitalised as a precaution.
The incident impacted Sanral’s e-tolling systems, which were halted during the evactuation, but were back up and running the following day.
Justic Project South Africa head, Howard Dembovsky, called the feigned chemical attack “cowardly”, requesting that the perpetrators face the full might of the law.
“Hoax or real, JPSA condemns this incident in the strongest possible terms and wishes all Sanral employees affected by this incident well,” he said.
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