{"id":27686,"date":"2026-03-04T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27686"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:25:04","slug":"collapsed-sa-building-had-no-municipal-approval","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/collapsed-sa-building-had-no-municipal-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Collapsed SA building had no municipal approval&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Preliminary investigations by the South Africa&#8217;s (SA) City of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, have revealed that the building may have been erected without approved municipal plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Nine construction workers confirmed dead following the collapse of a two-storey warehouse structure under construction in Ormonde, south of Johannesburg, in what authorities are increasingly describing as a preventable tragedy linked to regulatory non-compliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Authorities say this has raised serious concerns about the structural integrity of the development, with early assessments pointing to a poorly constructed slab and broader deficiencies, which rendered the building unsound.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour, Jomo Sibiya, who conducted an on-site inspection on Tuesday, has warned that any developer or contractor found to have violated occupational health and safety legislation will face decisive legal consequences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27690,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-27686","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA building may have been erected without approved municipal plans","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27686","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\/27686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27691,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27686\/revisions\/27691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}