A building fire in the Jeppestown, which resulted in four deaths and over 200 residents being displaced, raised critical questions about the metro's progress in dealing with the scourge of hijacked buildings in the inner city.
JOHANNESBURG - Johannesburg’s Human Settlements MMC, Mlungisi Mabaso, said that without the intervention of the police and the Department of Home Affairs, the city's hands were tied in dealing with the hijacked building crisis in the city.
This tragedy, which comes almost a year after the Usindiso building fire that claimed more than 70 lives in August 2023, has raised critical questions about the metro's progress in dealing with the scourge of hijacked buildings in the inner city, as lives continue to be lost. "If the owner identified that their property has been hijacked, they’ve got ways of opening cases with the police so that the police are able to assist them in that regard because the reality is that the municipality cannot do much in dealing with that outside the law enforcement processes.""We are not the ones responsible for dealing with the SAPS ," the MMC said.
The spokesperson for the campaign, Mametlwe Sebei, said this showed government had not learned any lessons from the Usindiso building fire tragedy.
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