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.
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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.
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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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