{"id":226221,"date":"2018-02-16T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=226221"},"modified":"2018-02-16T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:12:43","slug":"guptas-sahara-computers-shut-down-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/226221\/guptas-sahara-computers-shut-down-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Guptas&#8217; Sahara Computers shuts down: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sahara Computers, owned and run by the Gupta family, has been shut down, according to a report by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/exclusive-guptas-sahara-computers-closed-abandoned-20180216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>News24<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the company\u2019s head office in Midrand is for sale, with only three former Sahara employees and a security guard at the offices on 16 February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the former employees told News24 that Sahara closed down about four months ago,\u201d stated News24.<\/p>\n<p>The Sahara head office \u2013 which is home to Sahara Computers and Sahara Systems \u2013 is now on the market for R50 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlternatively, the 6,500 square metre property could be leased for about R390,000 a month,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the Gupta family were implicated in state capture, with Ajay Gupta recently declared a fugitive in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Au-q0VDSPiA\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/225965\/r100000-reward-for-info-leading-to-the-arrest-of-ajay-gupta\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">R100,000 reward for info leading to the arrest of Ajay Gupta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahara Computers, owned and run by the Gupta family, has been shut down, according to a report by\u00a0News24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":226223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226227,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226221\/revisions\/226227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}