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Under development: The Iconic
will consist of 219 flats across
two four-storey buildings in two
phases. Photo: Craft Homes

Melrose: blend of hype and heritage

The Johannesburg suburb remains one of those rare ones that feel historic and perfectly ahead of the curve

Sunday’s fire occurred less than six months after an inferno claimed the lives of 77 people in the Marshalltown area of the city. (Johannesburg EMS)

Woman due in court over Joburg building fire that killed two

A ‘domestic dispute’ is said to have been behind the blaze which destroyed a residential building in the city centre on Sunday

Former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse. (Photo by Gallo Images/Luba Lesolle)

Joburg CBD: How politics brought the city to its knees

Two former mayors tell of Johannesburg’s challenges, which led to last week’s fatal blaze

80 Albert Street: ‘It was a place for poor people, it’s not like we wanted to stay there’

The 80 Albert Street blaze was a tragedy waiting to happen – as are many other buildings in the city

Photo by Umamah Bakharia

62 Joburg fire corpses still unidentified

City officials this week started raiding buildings that have been hijacked in an effort to curb illegal occupation

77 people died and when the building they lived in burnt down in Johannesburg.

UPDATED: Illegal electricity connections unlikely cause of fire in hijacked Joburg building, says forensic investigator

Crime syndicate bosses will start a fire to remove tenants from a building they would like to occupy

The five-storey building that caught fire and claimed the lives of 77 people in Marshalltown was leased to the provincial development department for a shelter for abused women and children before it was “hijacked”

Joburg building engulfed by fire, killing 74, was a ‘hijacked’ shelter for women and children

The fire that gutted the building might have been caused by illegal electricity connections, officials said