Advocate Ishmael Semenya implicates City of Joburg's GFIS in the Usindiso Building fire tragedy at Commission of Inquiry.
Advocate Ishmael Semenya implicates City of Joburg's GFIS in the Usindiso Building fire tragedy at Commission of Inquiry.
“The statements confirmed there was someone collecting rent money and that person was not the owner, especially in this case since the owner was the City of Joburg,” he said. “Even lay observation would have told you the building is not compliant with fire safety and that you knew in 2019,” said Semenya.
“It was non-compliant in 2019, until the fire in 2023. To the extent that GFIS, responsible for enforcing by-laws that it didn’t do, must take part responsibility,” said Semenya.Ramulumisi argued he did not think GFIS should take part responsibility for what happened.