Fathers carried their excited young children on their shoulders, as armed police officers patrolled the streets around the building, from where a large banner with the words 'Jet Demolition' hanged.
Fathers carried their excited young children on their shoulders, as armed police officers patrolled the streets around the building, from where a large banner with the words"Jet Demolition" hanged.
Hassan Mtangalu, who has been living in the Johannesburg city centre for five years, said he was at the scene at 6am to witness the building collapse.Onlookers have set up cameras to record the event.“I’m always there when they demolish buildings. The first one I saw was the one of Bank City in the late 1990s.
“I have a big interest in buildings, every time that I walk in town, I’m fascinated by these buildings in the City. “When that building falls, it’s a part of us who also goes down. That building is part of our lives,” Armien said.The streets around the Bank of Lisbon building had been closed off ahead of the demolition.
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