{"id":95185,"date":"2014-01-21T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=95185"},"modified":"2014-01-21T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:33:19","slug":"e-tolls-shut-down-sanral-evacuated-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/95185-e-tolls-shut-down-sanral-evacuated-report.html","title":{"rendered":"E-tolls shut down, Sanral evacuated: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sanral\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372008-SANRAL\">Sanral<\/a>&#8216;s offices have been evacuated after a suspicious powder was found in the building, causing the e-toll system to be temporarily shut down.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to tweets posted by EyeWitness News on Tuesday (21 January), confirmed by <a title=\"http:\/\/www.beeld.com\/nuus\/2014-01-21-e-tolstelsel-is-af\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beeld.com\/nuus\/2014-01-21-e-tolstelsel-is-af\" target=\"_blank\">die Beeld<\/a> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Sanral&#8217;s offices in Samrand, Midrand, were evacuated as a safety precaution, after the substance was found. The substance has reportedly been taken in for testing.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, while Tshwane Emergency Services as well as the South African Police Service (<a title=\"SAPS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/485318-South-African-Police-Service-SAPS\">SAPS<\/a>) were on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for Sanral, <a title=\"Vusi Mona\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/535073-Vusi-Mona\">Vusi Mona<\/a>, told Power987 News as well as die Beeld, that the e-tolling system will be affected by the incident as all staff were evacuated, and no one is able to monitor the systems.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial Gauteng e-tolling system officially launched on 3 December 2013, and has faced fierce opposition by commuters and road users across the province.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More E-toll news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/94935-e-toll-a-deadly-mistake.html\"><strong>E-toll a deadly mistake<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/94911-raise-your-iq-a-little-bit-sanral-tells-concerned-e-toll-users.html\"><strong>\u201cRaise your IQ a little bit\u201d, Sanral tells concerned e-toll users<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/94851-e-tolls-credit-act-wont-give-you-debt-relief.html\"><strong>E-tolls: credit act won\u2019t give you debt relief<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanral&#8217;s offices have been evacuated after a suspicious powder was found in the building, causing the e-toll system to be temporarily shut down, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":94853,"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":[6525,9413,35,2072],"class_list":["post-95185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-e-toll","tag-e-tolls","tag-headline","tag-sanral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95185"}],"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=95185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95191,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95185\/revisions\/95191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}