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The court case against the suspect who allegedly started the fire is delayed with a warning to the defence over dragging its heels. The commission, meanwhile, wraps up the first part of its investigation into the Usindiso fire, which killed 76 people last year.
City-owned Usindiso Building preferred foreign tenants, fire witness says, blaming crime surge on this influx and management failures.
He survived the raging fire that gutted the property in August last year - killing more than 70 people and displacing hundreds.
The inquiry is hearing evidence on the prevalence of hijacked buildings in the inner city of Joburg after a five-storey building was gutted by fire last August, killing more than 70 people.
A month before the Usindiso building fire in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, last year, a man was shot dead and his friend iwounded when a person who suspected them of having robbed him found them in the building.