Joburg mayor to visit site of building collapse in Ormonde

JOHANNESBURG – Joburg mayor Dada Morero and his MMCs will visit Ormonde in the south of Joburg on Tuesday.

That’s where search and rescue operations are continuing after a deadly building collapse on Monday.

Six people are confirmed dead, while two bodies have been visualised within the concrete slabs.

READ | Ramaphosa mourns six lives lost in Johannesburg building collapse

One person is still unaccounted for. Three others are in hospital.

Workers were busy at a construction site when a floor gave way and collapsed.  

Some workers are believed to be trapped under a concrete slab.  

This is just one of many buildings that have collapsed in recent months.  

A building collapse in George resulted in 34 deaths in 2024.  

ALSO READ | Six dead after building collapsed in Johannesburg

Last December, five people were killed and several injured when a temple collapsed in Verulam in Durban.

Also in December, three people died in a double-storey house collapse in Soweto.  

Some of these incidents were linked to the use of substandard materials.

In others, contractors were found to be cutting corners.

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