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Parliament has confirmed that its security personnel were not on the premises when a fire gutted parts of the precinct, including the National Assembly.

The report was released more than a year before a blaze gutted the National Assembly and Old Assembly wings of the Legislature.In August 2020, following a competitive tender process, the Dep...

A report by auditors BDO, which was apparently hidden from Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille, made damning findings about fire hazards at Parliament more than a year before a blaze gutted the National Assembly and Old Assembly wings of the legislature.

A report by auditors BDO, which was apparently hidden from Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille, made damning findings about fire hazards at Parliament more than a year before a blaze gutted the National Assembly and Old Assembly wings of the legislature. In August 2020, following a competitive tender process, the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure appointed an external auditing company, BDO, to conduct an independent assessment on the slow progress of Prestige refurbishment projects at Parliament.

The man who is suspected of setting fire to the South African Parliament, which gutted buildings in the legislative capital Cape Town, has started 30-day mental observation at a psychiatric hospital, authorities said.