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Sunday Tribune reports that three years after a concrete slab collapsed and crushed her to death, Zakithi Nxumalo’s family still does not know the truth about the events that led to the tragedy at the Tongaat Mall construction site.
The 28-year-old mother of three from KwaMashu was a bricklayer at the mall, which was being built by Gralio Precast, a company owned by businessman Jay Singh. The collapse also killed Zweli Masuku, 51, and injured 29 other construction workers. In 2014 Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the mall’s collapse and it found several contraventions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and construction regulations. In 2015 Oliphant said the full report would not be made public, but would instead be handed over to the National Prosecutions Authority to determine whether anyone should be prosecuted. However that decision has not yet been made.
- Read this report by Nokuthula Ntuli in full at Sunday Tribune
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