Father gives heart-wrenching account of how he lost his toddler in the Usindiso blaze

The tragedy has since been characterised as one of Africa’s deadliest fires

23 January 2024 - 20:48

A KwaZulu-Natal father has narrated how he lost his two-year-old daughter in the inferno that engulfed the hijacked Usindiso building last year...

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