George Building Collapse | Construction worker claims pillars not strong enough to support building
George Building Collapse | Construction worker claims pillars not strong enough to support building
We get the latest from SABC News Reporter Lwando Nomoyi who is on the ground in George where rescue workers face a race against time to locate people trapped under debris of a collapsed building.
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It's painful but for non documented 😢😢
Nothing with what Patric was saying experience counts bd Patric could be rite and experienced enough to question the.added alterations on the top floor if the load bearing pillars were not adequately designed to carry the alterations on the top floor ..this tradgedy could be a design fault that's for sure
Imagine being trapped under the rubble waiting desperately for help praying for survival yooh companies are only greedy to make profit more than safety of anything invented and worker's 💔💔
This guy knows what his talking about, he makes a lot of sense
So an illegal immigrant cleaner speaks as an engineer? I understand your pain and horror but please state facts.
Let's wait for the engineering report. This is a failed structural issue. Could be underdesign which hardly ever happens with structural engineers as they usually overdesign for these reasons. Could be a construction issue by the builder taking shortcuts or not allowing the concrete to gain strength before moving to the next floor of failing to install rebar correctly. Definitely the engineer and builder are going to be in the firing line. Sadly people have lost their lives for someone's incompetence. Geologists to check if any sinkholes in the area.
Why our government wasting resources on people who are not even supposed to be in south africa
He is a Venda
Cheap labour from Malawi by the surname Maseko.Home affairs must investigate. No jobs in for South African!!for sure Helen Susman foundation knows about this .
Totally reasonable assumption by the worker. There are other possibilities, such as poor material, haste, structural overload.
But more pillars would not have been a mistake, all things considered.
Foreigners. I did say. Cheap labour for these companies.
Firstly condolences to those families who lost their love one's questions need be asked were safety standard followed and why was so many foreign workers and why COSATU rep not allowed 😍😍😍
Illegal
Foreigner
It’s funny how several people in the comments jump to conclusions and are certain that this man is here illegally without having any information about his papers. Can we think before we speak bazalwane?
Funny how the original company has disappeared.
Usually, these buildings collapse when the building contractor did not follow the struct instructions of the engineer regarding the binding guidelines of the steel at the ground level section of the pillars. This would not have been negligence on the part of the structural engineer, nor the steel supplier, who always follow rules regarding this. 1 inch of steel wiring not bound correctly or at the exact overlap length can cause an entire building to collapse. The onus falls on the building contractor to follow the guidelines set about by the engineer. Suspect there was an error in calculation somewhere, or just blatant neglect/ignorance.
Bad design and totally incompetent management.
The lack of contractors , owners , engineers the people in charge are glaringly absent . Why ? They working on cover up. This is obviously a major fck up . Betcha a cover – up is coming . Why the talk to this guy . He is nonsencical.
The contractor is responsible for this incident under the health and safety act. Lets see who they are.
Pointless.interview as usual……..
Construction Industry is not hiring South Africans, the gentleman being interviewed here has just confirmed that.
I bet an engineer was appointed due to BEE
Im not an engineer,but by looking at the rubble(u can see the different floors),tell me that something went wrong at the bottom of the structure(dust first come from the bottom)
Who build that place?
Hi. All new building sites are hiring migrant workers because our people are too lazy to work.
Even the cleaner knew that something was not right with this building. Who was supervising the workers? Why did they not recognize there were problems. They were sitting in their bakkies eating McDonalds.
This is cheap labour's we qualified South Africans cant get hired because of foreign cheap labour
Who came with BEE ,the ANC
How many South Africans died in that building, now we all see that foreigners are employed whilst our people are unemployed
Still looking 😞😕
To those saying he is not an engineer, who taught the first engineer if i may ask? Or it was just general knowledge of different individuals?
Many foreigners employed and yet SA had to vote ,it's not OK anc
Can the municipality/community of George please setup a fund for the families affected. Clearly the employers are not bothered.
This is the most absurd interview ever.
Is that 'Patrick' person an expert in any civil engineering field.
Total emotional nonsense.
Civil Engineers need to be held accountable for this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!