{"id":550392,"date":"2006-10-04T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T10:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550392-computer-robbery-will-not-affect-matric-exams.html"},"modified":"2006-10-04T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T10:52:54","slug":"computer-robbery-will-not-affect-matric-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550392-computer-robbery-will-not-affect-matric-exams.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer robbery &#8216;will not affect matric exams&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;No information concerning examinations was stored in the stolen computers. Information concerning exams had already been printed out and all papers have been delivered already,&quot; she told a media briefing on Tuesday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Motshekga could however not speculate on whether a gang of more than 20 armed robbers had specifically targeted the department&#8217;s &quot;sensitive&quot; departments or not. Also, she could not say what the motive for the robbery was. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;I haven&#8217;t received a detailed report yet. All I know is that upper floors were not affected at all.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">She said only the first four floors housing the department&#8217;s finance, communication, infrastructure and policy development sections were cleaned out. About 120 computers were stolen when the gang of about 20 robbers gained entry into the department&#8217;s offices at 111 Commissioner Street through a basement door. Motshekga said each section of the department had five security guards on duty at the time. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A total of 76,091 full-time pupils and 60,565 part-timers were expected to sit for examinations from Wednesday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night&#8217;s robbery at the Gauteng Department of Education offices would not affect matric examinations, said MEC Angie Motshekga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-550392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550392"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}