{"id":9186,"date":"2022-01-16T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T13:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2022-01-16T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T13:18:32","slug":"media-statement-intruder-breaks-into-the-sabc-bloemfontein-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-intruder-breaks-into-the-sabc-bloemfontein-office\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | INTRUDER BREAKS INTO THE SABC BLOEMFONTEIN OFFICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg \u2013 Sunday 16 January 2022<\/strong><strong> \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) can confirm that an intruder broke into its Bloemfontein office this morning, vandalising the building near its studios.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On confrontation, a fight broke out, and a Security officer fired a shot at the suspect, injuring his lower body. The suspect was taken to Pelonomi Hospital. No security officers or SABC employees on duty sustained any injuries during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A case (686\/01\/2022) was opened with the Bloemfontein Hawkes and is being led by Captain Cynthia Moleko, who can be reached on 082 067 5225.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SABC commends its security officers for containing the situation and preventing further damage to its staff and property.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ends<\/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\u00a0Group Communications <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T<\/strong><\/a><strong>. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0513<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 Sunday 16 January 2022 \u2013\u00a0The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) can confirm that an intruder broke into its Bloemfontein office this morning, vandalising the building near its studios. &nbsp; On confrontation, a fight broke out, and a Security officer fired a shot at the suspect, injuring his lower body. The suspect was taken [&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\/9186"}],"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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9187,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9187"}],"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=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}