At least 76 people died in the fire at a building abandoned by Johannesburg city authorities and taken over by illegal ‘landlords’.
A retired Constitutional Court judge will lead an official inquiry into last week’s fire at a derelict building in downtown Johannesburg that left at least 76 people dead in one of South Africa’s worst tragedies, the government said Tuesday.
Justice Sisi Khampepe will lead a three-member panel seeking to establish “who must shoulder total responsibility for this tragedy”, the government said. The inquiry will also look at the prevalence of rundown…