Nine people have died and 44 people remain under the rubble after the residential block of flats under construction collapsed on Monday.
CAPE TOWN - The Department of Labour says its investigation into a building collapse in George will check whether economic migrants were permitted to work in South Africa.Eighty-one workers were on site when the residential block of flats under construction crashed on Monday.
“Let’s allow these investigations because sometimes, depending on the evidence we get, they can implicate people. We have to be meticulous in our processes,” he said.
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