{"id":27547,"date":"2026-03-03T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27547"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:24:51","slug":"death-toll-in-sas-ormonde-building-collapse-rises-to-eight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/death-toll-in-sas-ormonde-building-collapse-rises-to-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in SA&#8217;s Ormonde building collapse rises to eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The death toll in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Ormonde building collapse has risen to eight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Johannesburg Emergency Services Spokesperson, Xolile Khumalo, says rescue and recovery operations resumed Tuesday morning after being suspended on Monday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">She says one person remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cRecovery operations have commenced for three missing individuals who have been located, and teams are currently working to extract them from beneath the concrete slab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">One person remains unaccounted for, bringing the total confirmed death toll to eight. Operations were suspended late yesterday evening. Emergency Medical Services and various stakeholders resumed the search this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y4ZLUhS6BjE?si=O_Rwe17ByRzdbSUr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27549,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-27547","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Death toll in SA's Ormonde building collapse rise","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27550,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27547\/revisions\/27550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}