MONDAY, 4.00PM
INTRUDERS at the weekend broke into the Pretoria offices of the Gender Commission and sprayed an office with a white “poison-like” substance, commissioner Thenjiwe Mtintso said on Monday morning.
Mtintso said when she arrived at her office after the weekend, she noticed the door had been forced open. “My whole office was covered with a white substance, like a layer of snow,” she said. “I think it may be poisonous because my eyes were watery and my nose runny when I left the office.” Nothing had been stolen.
Mtintso said she suspected somebody was trying to harass the Gender Commission as this was the third time in two weeks that the commission’s Pretoria offices had been broken into.
A cellular telephone and a fax machine were stolen from the building last week, and another cellular phone was taken the week before.