The Department of Employment and Labour said the compensation fund will only be reviewed once the investigation into the cause of the collapse can be determined
The structural risks of the buildings and others like them were widely known, but that city officials did little when alerted about them
Genetic testing to identify the remains of South Africans killed in the building collapse has not been easy, according to a new report.
Six people who were injured in the fatal accident have been released from an SA hospital and have been cleared of any dangerous infections.
Scaffolding for hire is just a small sign of a large informal industry.
TB Joshua’s church has turned from attacking potential rescuers to helping them. So has Nigeria’s government but it’s a case of too little too late.
President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to investigate the cause of a building collapse, which has left at least 86 dead.
SA government believes 300 South Africans were visiting the Lagos church, but it was not clear how many were on the spot when the tragedy struck.
Earthworks plans for the Tongaat Mall, outside Durban, which partially caved in last year, were rejected four times, heard a commission of inquiry.
Missing steel bars needed to reinforce a beam holding a concrete slab at the ill-fated Tongaat mall were missing, an inquiry has found.
A building collapse, which has left 15 people dead in the resort state of Goa, has drawn attention to safety standards amid India’s construction boom.
Gralio Precast, responsible for the collapsed Tongaat mall that killed one person and injured 29 others, has been awarded another R101-million tender.
One person is reported dead and 29 injured so far after a roof collapse at a shopping mall in Tongaat, north of Durban.
About 50 workers are feared trapped under rubble after the roof of a shopping mall collapsed in Tongaat, north of Durban, says paramedics.
An apartment block has collapsed in Mumbai’s outskirts, killing at least 10 in the latest incident to fuel concerns about the construction quality.
Police in Rwanda say three people have been killed and an unknown number are feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed.
Bangladeshi rescuers have found a woman survivor in the rubble of a garment factory complex which collapsed and killed 1 000 people in April.
Police have made a series of arrests over Bangladesh’s factory collapse as relatives lashed out at rescuers struggling to detect signs of life.
A Tanzania official says rescuers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Dar es Salaam, bringing the death toll to 34.
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Amritpal Singh, owner of a building that collapsed in New Delhi, killing 67 people, was arrested on Wednesday.
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/ 20 October 2008
Structural engineers have begun an investigation into the causes of the collapse of a three-storey Roodepoort building.
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/ 17 October 2008
Investigations into the collapse of a partially completed Gauteng office block have been put on hold until a worker believed to be trapped is found.
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/ 16 October 2008
A three-storey building collapsed on Thursday in Roodepoort, killing one worker and injuring 14 others. Another worker was missing.
Police in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria have arrested the owner of a building that collapsed on Wednesday, killing 11 residents.
At least 11 people were killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria before dawn on Wednesday when a four-storey apartment block collapsed.