George Building Collapse | Building presenting many challenges for rescue teams, slow progress
George Building Collapse | Building presenting many challenges for rescue teams, slow progress
Let’s take you to George where authorities are giving an update on the building collapse.
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Someone put a dinemight there was someone wanted the contract
I want to thanks to all hard work, Who give Thayer afford to risks the people ander that collapse building thank you very much I aprisi🙏💓🙏ate
Goodmornonimg suidafrika please 🙏pray for our bebeatiful cantri it is.already 🙏 so destro not even a post office or trans nett banks is safe and wat about our children and grand childeren please 🙏 ❤️ think 🙏 pray by that 🙏 that palette boxes and do the right thing 🙏
White ppl all sending their prayers, somehow when it's their ppl involved in slaughtering through greed and negligence somehow thes no talk of the law from those law abiding citizen when it suits them👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿💯
Who are the owners of the construction company.
Why are majority of trapped people black?where were the engineers when the collapsing was happening?
According to a headline story in "Herald Live" – 10 May 2024 : "Developers of the construction site where the building collapsed in George have seemingly vanished as public pressure for answers mounts, amid allegations of poor workmanship at the site. Carel Swanepoel, owner of Pacific Breeze Trading 91, a subsidiary of Neo Trend Group, and contractor Theunis Kruger, the owner of Liatel Developments, have taken down their company pages from the internet, while estate agent Ronel van der Walt, who was advertising the luxury apartments under construction, claimed she did not know where they were. The employment and labour department said it would take legal action against the owners after its attempts to subpoena them were ignored. Pacific Breeze bought the 1,220sq/m plot of land for about R3m in August 2020, and in November of the same year Swanepoel applied to have it rezoned to build a three-storey apartment block. However, the building’s size was later increased to a four-storey structure with additional parking for 66 cars and a yard. The plan was approved two months later by town planner Jan Vrolijk and senior director of urban planning Clinton Petersen. In March, two months later, Vrolijk added a fifth floor at the request of the developer. Employment and labour department officials visited the site on Thursday, where rescue operations were still under way. Chief inspector David Esau said: “The day we arrived, we tried to make contact with the client, who is the owner of these premises. “We went to their address on our system and it was locked.” Swanepoel’s lawyer, Hanno Brummer of Herbie Oosthuizen Attorneys, said it was not true that his client had gone to ground. “The officials went to a wrong place, a coffee shop, which is in the same street as my client’s address,” Brummer said. “An official by the name of Nonhle left her business card behind and we have been trying to get hold of her with no luck. We will co-operate with the department.”
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All the finger pointing should stop, let's wait for the investigation to be completed. There is something really suspicious here. It can't be that this is the only building this contracer has built. They definitely must have built other solid buildings, so what happened here. Just let the investigation team do their work.
Please guys we appreciate you,time is of essence, leave the book and professionalism out use common sense, move thoes slabs slowly and carefully ,too many spectators 40 lives under that rubble ,4 days unacceptable, too much talking and meeting, put the book aside😢😢😢😢
Structural Engineer should be accountable
Wheres the person in charge of this entire project?!!!
waar is Theuns???
It's not hats of and thank heavens.. IT'S HOW ON EARTH DID THIS HAPPEN.. HOW… there is no logical explanation…. How how how…. Things need to change in this country and quickly…
Regarding underground tumnels and suspecting illegal mining , which compromised the foundation beneath the ground …..
Thank you to the wonderful dogs 🥰
Brilliantly articulate and informative interviews…
Why were government building inspectors not inspecting the building during the process of building?
Well the most important thing here is to get the injured out , the whys and wherefores come later. This is a tragedy and human lives mstter more than anything . I pray for all the men who are involved . Really sorry
Why are these guys not in retirement village?
I'm so desperately sorry for this tragedy. I'm as well still constantly amazed that whites are developing snd we are buying on our land. We as people of colour have to get out of inertia and become constructive with opportunities 🙌🏽
I am stating my opinion, rush the job, get the job done, taking shortcuts. Double standards, window dressing. Health and Safety is sub standard nowadays, many take the lives of personnel for granted. When one does put their foot down for certain aspects and it just so happens to be a friend of those in charge then everyone must turn a blind eye. I have seen this time again. Sad but true. Condolences to those who have lost family.
The key! Questions moving forward beyond rescue and recovery 🙏 …. is what will the engineering, architectural and Biulding sectors of South African do differently!??
To absolutely prevent such biuling calapses In an area that's not regularly affected by earthquakes … with great responsible checks ✔ and balances.
This type of thing really should not be happening in this non earthquake region.
We have extremely competent professionals in this country.
The interviewee sound better than the interviewer. Own the space, make us feel your presence❤
There is power in prayer 🙏
Let all of us pray for these people to get them to safety
Its amazing what results competence can yield, hats off to the few EMS, Engineers, and SAPS left who still care about providing a service to us south africans 🎉
A response to construction Mafia! Which honest people are under the rubble of that site ! Notice That Constructional 3 D printer technology is not a response of default nor is it any where as democracy endeavor to protective claims of malfunction
Professionals, well done guys! thanks General to you too!
They take time to talk and walk and holiding conversation and its told only Tomorrow do the rescue work, i hope they do something quick , too many Chiefs and too little Indians to get those men out, and worry later, so they talk first and worry later to get those men out😊
Is omdat jle met buite lander werk en ons Suid Africa met by die huis sit
Rescuers: last question, we've got work to do
Media: just one more stupid question
Any word from the president of South Africa?
Unacceptable
How did this happen, this corruption produces substandard buildings, with all the engineers, life lost will never be recovered pure negligence
He says:
"the stage that we're in now is a long and difficult stage because we now have to look for 39 bodies in a structure that has collapsed…" 😮.
And they haven't yet formally confirmed that this is a recovery operation?
Why do they HAVE to bring in heavy equipment and "delayering" thereby increasing the risk for trapped people? Is it for economic reasons?
2024 still can't get a smooth video out of SABC…
Foetsek wena what has Ramaphosa have to do with buildings. Shut up you fool.