{"id":894281,"date":"2026-03-25T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/joburg-mayor-to-visit-site-of-building-collapse-in-ormonde\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:26:15","slug":"joburg-mayor-to-visit-site-of-building-collapse-in-ormonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/joburg-mayor-to-visit-site-of-building-collapse-in-ormonde\/","title":{"rendered":"Joburg mayor to visit site of building collapse in Ormonde"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; J<span>oburg mayor Dada Morero and his MMCs will visit Ormonde in the south of Joburg on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That&#8217;s where search and rescue operations are continuing after a deadly building collapse on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Six people are confirmed dead, while two bodies have been visualised within the concrete slabs.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>READ | <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/ramaphosa-mourns-six-lives-lost-johannesburg-building-collapse\"><span><strong>Ramaphosa mourns six lives lost in Johannesburg building collapse<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>One person is still unaccounted for. Three others are in hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Workers were busy at a construction site when a floor gave way and collapsed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some workers are believed to be trapped under a concrete slab.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is just one of many buildings that have collapsed in recent months.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A building collapse in George resulted in 34 deaths in 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>ALSO READ | <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/six-dead-after-building-collapsed-johannesburg\"><span><strong>Six dead after building collapsed in Johannesburg<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Last December, five people were killed and several injured when a temple collapsed in Verulam in Durban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Also in December, three people died in a double-storey house collapse in Soweto.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some of these incidents were linked to the use of substandard materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In others, contractors were found to be cutting corners.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> eNCA<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news-top-stories\/joburg-mayor-visit-site-building-collapse-ormonde\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Joburg mayor Dada Morero and his MMCs will visit Ormonde in the south of Joburg on Tuesday. That&#8217;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":894282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97523,24761],"tags":[97522,6030],"class_list":{"0":"post-894281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-joburg","8":"category-mayor","9":"tag-joburg","10":"tag-mayor"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}