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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER INSPECTED THE BUILDING DURING THE TIME THAT IT WAS ONLY 2 STORIES HIGH? ITS ALLEGED SINCE THAT TIME THERE WERE SIGNS OF INSTABILITY AND THEY CONTINUED AS NORMAL ANYWAY!!!??? WHY CANT THEY NAME THAT CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER THAT DID THAT INSPECTION???
Because they fear people with pitch forks lie you. Wait for the investigation to be done like the report on state capture. Only het your pitch fork out once the report is out.
please don't write in caps, it's considered shouting. we can understand you just fine if you write normal. your message is not more important if you write it in caps
@leoniea138 Madam you know South Africans are expensive? So they say we must go back and they will hire cheap Mozambican and Zimbabwean and other black Africans because we are lazy. That’s what happen because this guys worked day and night to complete the project. They didn’t rest on weekends 😂 . Most of them are strong but they didn’t have basic bricklaying training. So DA must sort it out now
Not the time to play politics? Really? After the Bree Street explosion and the building fires in Johannesburg, the DA was very happy "playing politics"???
The building that collapsed was not under the management or control of the DA. It's a private property that was being developed into an apartment block. There is a big difference between a public road controlled by the ANC and a private property. I apologise if this is all a bit too complicated for you to understand. I came to terms with the low IQ in this country long ago.
So the government authorities have never inspected the building site, they only relied on the construction company's Professional engineers to check the work?
Exactly!!! Why are the contractors now being told to stay quiet during investigations? They must speak up!!!! We know there were issues reported by some of the site workers but NO the show must go on and now here we are with victims as young as 19 years old in that rubble. Peoples live are ruined because of pure ignorance and negligence man
Alan says it's not time to play politics, which i agree but he would have played the same politics if this happened in place governed by ANC. We would not hear the end of lt. Accusations of corruption woyld abound but now it's not time to play politics really!!
This will happen again…… ..unfortunately…..poor/corrupt contractors, poor corrupt officials/inspectors, badly trained or unqualified engineers/workers…..and just getting worse…….
It seems like the concrete support pillars were not 100% dry this makes sense but at this stage still speculation until an investigation is done this will take time they are still focussed working through the night to rescue any more survivors
I am not even going to respond to pure ignorant racist philosophy of Apparheid mentality do us all a favour and go live in another Provence under the rot of the ANC you're not welcome in our beutifull City Mr so called Black Panther
Condolences to the families. My question where was NHBRC and how did they miss such a disaster? Did the contractor follow the Architects plan and engineers drawings and what is the geotech report of this site. I hope there was no bribery involved. Unfortunately we have people that don't respect the profession
😂 but the company is white owned . White excellence and now you are shamed to own up? The owner is Carel Swanepoel And director is Theuns Kruger,. Atleast we didn’t have black ownership here
Another problem is developers that want everything cheap and don't pay professionals appropriately but rather bribe to fast track their project without any accountability.
Apparently the concrete support pillars were not 100% dry but this is just speculation for now a full investigation will take place and I've no doubt that someone will have to answer and action will be taken the SAPS are involved in the investigation
Thanks to rescue teams involved. You guys are the true dark knights. The only ones who truly appreciate your sacrifice are the ones who's lives you save.
It appears that the building collapsed into the underground carpark and it looks like very bad structual support pillars not strong enough to carry the weight who was the construction company building these appartments where were the structual enginerrs and site foremen were these people fully qualified this shoul never happen an investigation will take time but the truth will come and no dought action will be taken against the people responsible for this disaster
Seriously....look at all the old Government buildings and churches my father built in this town ,, still standing strong . Weathered all the storms ....and i had to learn about construction when i was a kid ....(> my brothers and i *)....
Please people this is not the time and place to look for loop holes and blame anybody. We must rather prayer that those people must be rescued quick. Stop playing politics.
@@MightyBlackPantherI'm still young so I apologize, but why are we calling them DApartheid, is it because of their involvement in apartheid or are there new resurfaced things? Yet again, sorry for not being informed.
@@WoahMate-dl3exStart by studying South African history, then global history as to how it influenced the end of apartheid, namely the cold War influence on South africa. Then research socialism and capitalism. Lastly study the big political manifestos
@@jabulanismithyou are a race-hustler... And people are sick and tired of being accused of being things they are not just because you cant let go of the past... This is about whats happening today... And you can't blame everything on rasism... Time to build another world or stay stuck in the past
@@luzukondyalvan6694 But if you knew more, you would know, there is a private engineer and arcitech that take full responsibility over the site and construction.. Also NHBRC is also part of the project.. The engineers override the building inspectors all day every day.. The inspectors can only make sure by laws and building regulations is being followed to a degree. Everything else falls on the engineer to sign off on..
@@shokolok5514 Labour is not qualified to make comments in a situation like this. This should be a completely independent and impartial investigation. There are more than enough qualified professionals within the correct professional bodies that will form part of the PE to investigate this. And I 100% believe that they take no prisoners in this regard. Look at what happened in Tongaat a few years ago. As long as the same process is followed, there should be only factual information presented to the public
@ MrShannonmoll labour must ask for the identity book first because it looks like they have illegal foreigners. Dear labour has every right to investigate. What is labour compensation for. They need to know how it happened . If the building collapsed when it was occupied by the tenants you are right but it collapsed on workers. They have to claim for COIDA so they must answer just like you claim from your insurance policy .
@ MrShannonmoll typical white male answer with arrogance that they will never to answer to blacks. Labour has every right to investigate and charge the owner. First we need to know if the guys are registered and their skills and if they are legal here. We need to know if they can be compensated under labour insurance
If this happened in an ANC run area ?! I tell you the DA would have jumped on the opportunity including its loyalist attacking the tendering system and BEE. The truth is this country is afflicted by corruption from thr public and private sector but because of racism corruption will always be black
Are you saying that the race infused tendering and quota system in South Africa have NOT contributed to the substandard houses and roads so prevalent in our country?
@ marthienel2190 do you acknowledge how you have benefited from Apartheid? Do you acknowledge you have kept the spoils of war and you have crimes against humanity that you never answered
@DumaM-ir7rk i worked very very hard for the little I have. So did my parents.Double shifts. Scrimping and saving. One observation: In other African countries where there was NO apartheid the whites and Indians have all rose to the upper end of the economic chain. Now why is that, do you think? Divine intervention?
@ marthienel2190 let me remind you I am the devil himself nonbeliever in case you think I am your christian or belong to any denomination . So I am black and I have not gained from BEE and hard working for myself. Hard work according to you is working for Eskom or Telkom or any other white company that pays you more at the expense of other black workers I guess. Show me any country that was not colonised and how the coloniser destroy infrastructure when they leave.
Bullshit ,the tender goes to the best company on the tender list with a secure background,not always the cheapest .The people that authorized the tender/ contract are .politicians not flippin engineers etc.In any building project is specification, spec c etc ,which engineers and building inspectors watch very careful to ensure that it is followed. How can you blame the DA for this and want answers from them.Yes the DA will surely get answers and reasons for this disaster but you can't blame them for what has happen.If a contractor build you a house and it falls apart are you going to blame yourself????.
@@MusehanaH yes thats why its a world class town unlike the towns run by the Nazis aka the ANC...crumbling infrastructure, no water, no jobs, businesses closed, no maintenance, just ineptitude from a bunch of thieves and thugs...
Which Citizens? You mean Malawian and Mozambique citizens!! There’s no South African Citizen trapped there. Another cheap labor contractor that is going to be protected by sweeping regulations under the carpet.
@ lindilevincent4180 corporate South Africa has money and regulators on this country in all industries they now to the capitalist who happen to be white by default
Every restaurant in this country and every retailer in this country hired illegal immigrants who are so arrogant and disrespectful to the locals. Now every call centre and street vendors are foreigners who have one parents from South Africa and one from outside the country. This one parents 99% of the time is a women not men
The problem is greed... The developers and estate agents don't care for the lives of workers sites or citizens that end up paying millions for cheaply unsafe buildt apartment blocks.... Karma... How about housing for millions of shack dwellers.... Longterm solutions....why is a basic human societal need being denied to people.... The da should stop approving airbnb buildings and build housing for real citizens and locals....
All companies need to be BEE compliant. And just to let you know, MOST BEE companies I know, have competent people in place. They don't necessarily pay the people as much as the corporates, but I've personally been contacted multiple times by BEE companies offering me a position due to my experience and qualifications. So we can't point fingers in that direction.
@@DumaM-ir7rk really and the fact that blind liberals like you cant see the reality is unbeliveable. If you are pro-bbbbeeee, did you at least get another coloure of wife with even more bastered kids an live between thoùse you love so much where you fit in . If not i suggest you move to those areas where you will fit right in and feel at home......
You don't reckon there might have been a sudden shift of material on the basement level? You do know that angle of repose exists right? Was it backfilled already? Or battered? Shored? What method was used here? Please explain so that I can also know what you know
@ drinivanderberg2967 company is owned by whites and all board members are whites. We don’t have black South Africans but illegal immigrant. Black people must see what people for who they are an dwhy they must never trust whites who destabilised Zimbabwe and Mozambique so that all this blacks can rely on South African whites
It is time be Political ! Inexpensive agenda of building " when possible more than 600,000 rand's for quality control material for constructing building is in pockets or reserve for private restaurants throughout Capetown
O no. There are livfes to be saved. Talk later. Winde hou many brick did you carry away. If they whant to save lifes you need wheelbarrow and shuffels to clean up. Those people standing around. O no.😢😢
Plans approved by a DA municipality. Constructed by Liatel Development and Neo Trend Construction, both white owned companies. So, who would be incompetent now?
Plans approved by a DA municipality. Constructed by Liatel Development and Neo Trend Construction, both white owned companies. So, who would be incompetent now?
Plans approved by a DA municipality. Constructed by Liatel Development and Neo Trend Construction, both white owned companies. So, who would be incompetent now?
@ liespypolygraph the name of the companies are readily available. cIPRO will tell you who are the owners . The illegal immigrant don’t count as BEE and if they have BEE candidates then show me their names and in what capacity because whites hire black candidates in a position of HR and they prefer women who won’t make change as they agree to all lies that the boss is telling them
Plans approved by a DA municipality. Constructed by Liatel Development and Neo Trend Construction, both white owned companies. So, who would be incompetent now?
