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Seven children are among the 73 people who lost their lives in Thursday morning's horrific fire at a hijacked building in the Joburg CBD.

At least 63 people died when an alleged hijacked building in Johannesburg CBD caught fire on Thursday morning.

More than 70 people were killed overnight when fire raged through a five-storey apartment block in a poor area of Johannesburg, officials said on Thursday, adding that some of the victims may have been renting rooms there from criminal gangs.At noon, the munipical-owned building was still smoulderin

WHAT ARE HIJACKED BUILDINGS AND WHEN DID THE ISSUE BEGIN? Since the end of apartheid in 1994, a housing crisis in South Africa's largest city of Johannesburg, in Gauteng province, has grown worse, as big businesses moved out of the inner city into affluent suburbs. Criminal syndicates in the 1990s and 2000s started "hijacking" buildings that were left empty and renting them out illegally.

The Department of Human Settlements in North West has been slammed over unfinished multimillion-dollar housing projects in the Taung Local Municipality.This comes after the Legislature’s ove...

The death toll from a fire in a multi-storey building in South Africas Johannesburg has risen to 73, while 52 others have been injured, spokesman for Johannesburg Emergency Management Services Robert Mulaudzi said on Thursday.

Survivors of a fire that engulfed a Johannesburg building in the early hours of

A fire at an apartment block killed over 70 people

Fires are common in Johannesburg, especially in poor areas. One of the poorest townships of Alexandra has seen hundreds of homes razed in several fires over the past five years.

More than 70 people have been killed after a fire raged through a five-storey Johannesburg apartment block.