A blaze at the Cape Town office of the public protector did not damage any investigation files, according the Chapter 9 entity.
Head of Communications at the Public Protector, Oupa Segalwe, confirmed that a fire broke out at the office on Thursday morning and that the City’s fire department extinguished the fire.
Segalwe said the office does not know the cause of the fire as yet, and that this was the second time a fire had broken out at the office, the previous having taken place a few years ago. “While the building was evacuated, crews from Roeland Street fire station had managed to contain the blaze to a single room.”
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