On an ordinary day no one would expect to see a 2.25- metre python in the Pretoria CBD - so members of the public and Department of Labour employees were amazed to find two dangerous reptiles in their midst last week.
You are the man Van Rooyen IF you killed the snakes. Some conservationists (MommaC included) would have been mad at you.
"Department of Labour spokesman Mishack Magakwane dismissed Van Rooyen's claims. "
LOL. You are probably right Mr Magakwane. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Shredder
@shrink7 - which building is that again, in which city?????
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Nxa!!, I feel like slapping you? Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Eraser
Boring Story...so wht must we do with this story.. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
ntshware-ke-yawa
I use to tell people never say never.I remember a story somewhere in 2009 whereby people were on picnic around one of the swimming-pool(which was declared danger-free) in PTA when suddenly one of the visitors saw a crocodile crawling towards the pool with people inside.People were terrified to death that day but no-one was injured or attacked whatsoever by the crocodile. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
nofavours
you should have just robbed a bank with this babies. Idiot Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
THEmadame2B-BBEE
mara y should he kill them, poor snakes they belong to God Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Doctor247
Ag nee man!!! People scared to DEATH, but none injured? Damn!!! Report Abuse
the spokesman will swallow his words when a snake swallows him..... Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
BiBi
cicici van rooyen usenga ezimithiyo abelungu abazibulali izinyoka ikakhulukazi abake basebenza e snake park Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
DJ-Winner
Are sure those were not toys? There is no snakes in Pretoria....only those bought by white people in the pet shops... Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Nongoloza24
Doctor247
Ag nee man!!! People scared to DEATH, but none injured? Damn!!!
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hahahahahahaha ntwana on a Monday morning now this made me laugh Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
KasiKid
Department of Labour spokesman Mishack Magakwane dismissed Van Rooyen's claims. He said Van Rooyen must have found them somewhere else.............................................................................................................................................................................
2 snakes fallen from the roof of Department of labour:
The employees are so lazy and half asleep all the time so much that they would have felt nothing even if the snakes bit them. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Nongoloza24
Bosepa2
Galfrend
okay i see where this is going and i'm not ready for any Serious relationship (i'm really sorry), please give me time..
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hahahahahahahaha lmao hahahahahahaha ROTFL hahahahahaha **falling off my chair** hahahahahaha Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Papgat
2.25- metre python in the Pretoria CBD, it sound unbelievable. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
LBS
>>Van Rooyen said he had worked at a snake park in KwaZulu-Natal and knew how to kill a snake.<<
What an idiot!!
If he's worked in a snake park he should know pythons are a protected species and essentially harmless if you stay out of their way. (They don't bite, they crush their prey)
If the snake(s) were in fact in the building they were probably keep down the rat population
Since when do snake parks teach staff or anyone else how to kill a snake?
The man is talking BS and looking for attention! Report Abuse
Well that Department requires serious fumigation, because next time, a human may lose their life over these!!! Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
"I panicked and ran for my life. But when I looked back I realised the snakes were stranded so I stoned them to death."
Van Rooyen said he had worked at a snake park in KwaZulu-Natal and knew how to k*ll a snake.
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Kakkakakkakkakakakkakaka moshana enwa o leshano maan, Van Rooyen says he can k*ll the snakes but ran for his life at the first place, he was throwing the stones 10metre from the snake. LOL
You have to be a card-carrying mumba of the anc to get job in that building. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
theDriver
Why did this idiot killed the stranded snakes?, if he worked with snakes before he should've known better and called snake catchers. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Mdeeva
Van Rooyen is a big fat liar,he just wanted name for himself, he just found the snake dead. I mean one minute he is running for his life,and another he was a professional who worked at the snake park before.
By the way this story is not interesting,interesting stories please. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Papage
"I had found a buyer, an elderly woman, who said someone wanted the snakes.
Eish and you may find that is a Black woman, wanting to use it to be-witch his son in law, women from Pitoria, o ba tsabe Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
MommaC
if he had really worked at a snake park, he would know that the python is a protected species. It is also not dangerous. Mullet. At 4am, even the rinkals wouldn't have been warm enough to be dangerous. No wonder he is a parking attendant. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
Xhosa people working in that building know about such snakes since their mojolas follow them wherever they go,that snakes are their majolas. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
GeneralSpecific
Please note that Skinner and Andries are not in existence anymore and that Nana Sita and Thabo Sehume are new names respectively. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
RobinH
Now guess what it was that was clogging the drains.......... Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
Honeybadger
GeneralSpecific
Please note that Skinner and Andries are not in existence anymore and that Nana Sita and Thabo Sehume are new names respectively.
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So what? tell that to sowetan and whoever else who gives a screw Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
spatch
"I had found a buyer, an elderly woman, who said someone wanted the snakes.
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"Sssssssssssssssay lady, wanna buy this sssssssssssssnake?"
But when I looked back I realised the snakes were stranded without a lift and they were not expecting a taxi to pick them up, so I used a trick I learn from striking black brothers and stoned them. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
spatch
On a different subject, howcome we never hear about car guards, who helps people park their cars, going on ssssstrike? Report Abuse
So what. All state buildings are occupied by snakes, but unfortunately we are not allowed to ki.ll them. We have to wait for justice to take its course. Report Abuse
Oct 1, 2012
OldMacDonald
People buy cute little snakes, then when they get too big, they just let them go, happens everywhere. In the Florida Everglades, it's an epidemic with snakes attacking alligators......
People should be educzted, without snakes we'd all have bubonic plague.
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shrink7
which building is that again, in which city?????Report Abuse
MophemeKoPitori
It is not that, someone is messing with others so revenge is imminent.Made in LIMPOPO
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Shredder
You are the man Van Rooyen IF you killed the snakes. Some conservationists (MommaC included) would have been mad at you."Department of Labour spokesman Mishack Magakwane dismissed Van Rooyen's claims. "
LOL. You are probably right Mr Magakwane.
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Shredder
@shrink7 - which building is that again, in which city?????==================================================
Nxa!!, I feel like slapping you?
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Eraser
Boring Story...so wht must we do with this story..Report Abuse
ntshware-ke-yawa
I use to tell people never say never.I remember a story somewhere in 2009 whereby people were on picnic around one of the swimming-pool(which was declared danger-free) in PTA when suddenly one of the visitors saw a crocodile crawling towards the pool with people inside.People were terrified to death that day but no-one was injured or attacked whatsoever by the crocodile.Report Abuse
nofavours
you should have just robbed a bank with this babies. IdiotReport Abuse
THEmadame2B-BBEE
mara y should he kill them, poor snakes they belong to GodReport Abuse
Doctor247
Ag nee man!!! People scared to DEATH, but none injured? Damn!!!Report Abuse
mambozana
so what, who cares. boring....Report Abuse
tpaz
the spokesman will swallow his words when a snake swallows him.....Report Abuse
BiBi
cicici van rooyen usenga ezimithiyo abelungu abazibulali izinyoka ikakhulukazi abake basebenza e snake parkReport Abuse
DJ-Winner
Are sure those were not toys? There is no snakes in Pretoria....only those bought by white people in the pet shops...Report Abuse
Nongoloza24
Doctor247Ag nee man!!! People scared to DEATH, but none injured? Damn!!!
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hahahahahahaha ntwana on a Monday morning now this made me laugh
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KasiKid
Department of Labour spokesman Mishack Magakwane dismissed Van Rooyen's claims. He said Van Rooyen must have found them somewhere else.............................................................................................................................................................................Wait until they bite your @ss.
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MSG_S
2 snakes fallen from the roof of Department of labour:The employees are so lazy and half asleep all the time so much that they would have felt nothing even if the snakes bit them.
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Nongoloza24
Bosepa2Galfrend
okay i see where this is going and i'm not ready for any Serious relationship (i'm really sorry), please give me time..
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hahahahahahahaha lmao hahahahahahaha ROTFL hahahahahaha **falling off my chair** hahahahahaha
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Papgat
2.25- metre python in the Pretoria CBD, it sound unbelievable.Report Abuse
LBS
>>Van Rooyen said he had worked at a snake park in KwaZulu-Natal and knew how to kill a snake.<<What an idiot!!
If he's worked in a snake park he should know pythons are a protected species and essentially harmless if you stay out of their way. (They don't bite, they crush their prey)
If the snake(s) were in fact in the building they were probably keep down the rat population
Since when do snake parks teach staff or anyone else how to kill a snake?
The man is talking BS and looking for attention!
Report Abuse
Pontshopontsho
Snakes should be at the mountainsReport Abuse
DrunkenMaster
Nonsense story nehReport Abuse
MGEEZ
Well that Department requires serious fumigation, because next time, a human may lose their life over these!!!Report Abuse
KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
"I panicked and ran for my life. But when I looked back I realised the snakes were stranded so I stoned them to death."Van Rooyen said he had worked at a snake park in KwaZulu-Natal and knew how to k*ll a snake.
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Kakkakakkakkakakakkakaka moshana enwa o leshano maan, Van Rooyen says he can k*ll the snakes but ran for his life at the first place, he was throwing the stones 10metre from the snake. LOL
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spatch
You have to be a card-carrying mumba of the anc to get job in that building.Report Abuse
theDriver
Why did this idiot killed the stranded snakes?, if he worked with snakes before he should've known better and called snake catchers.Report Abuse
Mdeeva
Van Rooyen is a big fat liar,he just wanted name for himself, he just found the snake dead. I mean one minute he is running for his life,and another he was a professional who worked at the snake park before.By the way this story is not interesting,interesting stories please.
Report Abuse
Papage
"I had found a buyer, an elderly woman, who said someone wanted the snakes.Eish and you may find that is a Black woman, wanting to use it to be-witch his son in law, women from Pitoria, o ba tsabe
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MommaC
if he had really worked at a snake park, he would know that the python is a protected species. It is also not dangerous. Mullet. At 4am, even the rinkals wouldn't have been warm enough to be dangerous. No wonder he is a parking attendant.Report Abuse
KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
Xhosa people working in that building know about such snakes since their mojolas follow them wherever they go,that snakes are their majolas.Report Abuse
GeneralSpecific
Please note that Skinner and Andries are not in existence anymore and that Nana Sita and Thabo Sehume are new names respectively.Report Abuse
RobinH
Now guess what it was that was clogging the drains..........Report Abuse
Honeybadger
GeneralSpecificPlease note that Skinner and Andries are not in existence anymore and that Nana Sita and Thabo Sehume are new names respectively.
++++++++++++++
So what? tell that to sowetan and whoever else who gives a screw
Report Abuse
spatch
"I had found a buyer, an elderly woman, who said someone wanted the snakes.----------------------------------------------
"Sssssssssssssssay lady, wanna buy this sssssssssssssnake?"
Ma Agnes has left the buildings.....
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spatch
But when I looked back I realised the snakes were stranded without a lift and they were not expecting a taxi to pick them up, so I used a trick I learn from striking black brothers and stoned them.Report Abuse
spatch
On a different subject, howcome we never hear about car guards, who helps people park their cars, going on ssssstrike?Report Abuse
lindsay
@general specificwho gives a f! ck about that
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oldlady12
So what. All state buildings are occupied by snakes, but unfortunately we are not allowed to ki.ll them. We have to wait for justice to take its course.Report Abuse
OldMacDonald
People buy cute little snakes, then when they get too big, they just let them go, happens everywhere. In the Florida Everglades, it's an epidemic with snakes attacking alligators......People should be educzted, without snakes we'd all have bubonic plague.
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KatakataEmaotoAditshepe
Xhosas please take these majolas of your home guys maan eish.Report Abuse
MommaC
oldlady12Yip, veritable plague of them in the Union Buildings.
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