{"id":15586,"date":"2023-10-12T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:04:09","slug":"media-statement-sabc-contains-a-fire-incident-at-its-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-sabc-contains-a-fire-incident-at-its-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | SABC CONTAINS A FIRE INCIDENT AT ITS HEADQUARTERS  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg &#8211; Thursday, 12 October 2023<\/strong> \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) can confirm a fire incident at its headquarters, in the Radio campus in Auckland Park.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members have been evacuated from the affected building and an investigation into what caused the fire is also underway. Contingency measures are being implemented and the safety of all employees is prioritized.<\/p>\n<p>The Corporation will provide a further update once the emergency services have surveyed the situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group Communications <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Mmoni Seapolelo (Acting Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Seapolelomv@sabc.co.za\"><strong>Seapolelomv@sabc.co.za<\/strong><\/a><strong> | T. 011 714 3057 | C. 073 688 159<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Thursday, 12 October 2023 \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) can confirm a fire incident at its headquarters, in the Radio campus in Auckland Park. Staff members have been evacuated from the affected building and an investigation into what caused the fire is also underway. Contingency measures are being implemented and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15587,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions\/15587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}