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DEADLY DUST AND BURIED LIVES: YET ANOTHER SOUTH AFRICAN BUILDING CRASHES DOWN ON ITS RESIDENTS AS OFFICIALS PROMISE “THOUGHTS”
A family was BURIED ALIVE in their sleep. Three people are DEAD—including a ONE-YEAR-OLD CHILD—after a double-storey building in Doornkop, Soweto, violently collapsed without warning in the dead of night.
Eyewitness Zweli Nzima described pure chaos to the SABC: “When I went outside, there was a lot of dust everywhere.” He scrambled through rubble, pulling a four-year-old to safety while screams echoed in the dark. His desperate account is a DAMNING TESTAMENT to a community abandoned. Three survivors were hauled out and rushed to the hospital, fighting for their lives.
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson called it “deeply distressing.” He offered his “thoughts and condolences” and promised an investigation. BUT WHERE WAS THE ACTION BEFORE THE COLLAPSE? Just weeks earlier, in a Community-Based Planning session you can SEE DOCUMENTED HERE, residents BEGGED for formalized settlements and maintenance. Their warnings were IGNORED.
This isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a PATTERN. It’s a system that TALKS about accountability while people DIE in crumbling homes. The investigation will drag on. The statements will pile up. But a child is dead, and a community is screaming into the void.
How many more bodies will it take before someone actually listens?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
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