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City of Johannesburg officials and police inspected Vannin Court in Hillbrow, a hijacked eight-storey building on Pietersen Street and close to the CBD.

Two Johannesburg MMCs on Tuesday blamed the city’s challenges with hijacked buildings on NGOs and rulings made in court “without doing in-loco visits” to the buildings for which the judgments are applicable.

Building hijackings, much like other organised crimes such as illegal mining, must be given priority by the national government.

As authorities continue to probe the cause of the deadly blaze in a building in the Johannesburg CBD, a resident has told TimesLIVE he believes the fire could have been the result of an electric fault.

The City of Johannesburg last did an inspection of the CBD building that caught alight, claiming the lives of 74 people, four years ago.

The City of Johannesburg last did an inspection of the building that caught fire, claiming the lives of 74 people, four years ago.

Says they have decided to earn a living in an honest way and they should be respected.

Only a few bodies have been moved to the Diepkloof forensic pathology services mortuary, while the remaining bodies are waiting to be transported from the Hillbrow mortuary after a fire in a CBD building claimed 74 lives on Thursday.

As authorities continue to probe the cause of the deadly blaze in a building in the Johannesburg CBD, a resident has told TimesLIVE he believes the fire could have been the result of an electric fault.

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