Fiddling while Joburg’s people burn
The first thing most ANC leaders did after the inferno was pass the buck — but it’s their own incompetence that was to blame, for this and many other tragedies
03 September 2023 - 00:02
Obviously, the immolation of at least 76 people in a fire in a derelict building in downtown Johannesburg is appalling. It is impossible to imagine the agony of burning to death — and people who do not pause to put themselves in the shoes of those who died before pronouncing on why they were there in the first place deserve the deepest contempt...
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