The Sunninghill offices of Microsoft South Africa were hit by an explosion this morning at 5am that
sources believe was meant primarily to cause a disruption within the software organization. Police
revealed this morning that an “explosive device” was triggered in the courtyard outside the
staff canteen.
According to Marketing Director Terry Annecke, noone was
injured and the damage seems to have been peripheral.
She revealed, however, that there has been no indication of the
source of the bomb.
“Police and forensics teams are working on that at present,” she told
sa.internet.com this morning, “but the damage sustained has been
mostly structural in nature.”
While general operations and telephone systems remained
unaffected by the blast, the damage sustained meant some of the
technical support teams were unable to begin work this morning.
“Our mission-critical support teams are operating as normal,
however,” Annecke revealed, “and our normal technical support
teams will be back to normal levels by Monday morning at the
latest.”
Annecke said that it was unclear whether the bomb was placed in
the area or had been thrown into the premises over the wall.
“We do have extensive building security though,” she confirmed.
“We are all really saddened that this happened, but people have
rallied around and with operations largely unaffected, hopefully we
can put this hiccup behind us.”