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SABC News reports that the Public Servants Association (PSA) has accused the Gauteng provincial government of attempting to cover up the cause of last month’s fire at the Tembisa Hospital.
A man accused of allegedly starting the fire is expected to appear in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Friday after the court postponed his case on Monday. The trade union alleges that infrastructure and safety failures led to the incident and it has accused the provincial government of using unproven arson claims to deflect accountability and avoid urgent reforms. PSA provincial organiser Madimetja Mautla said: “The Department of Labor and Employment has also flagged that specific section of the building that burnt as one of the potential hazard areas … Nobody saw the person. And when you look at this building itself, there is no way that the person can just come and disappear without being seen, especially when they dream that they used petrol or whatever petrol bomb … there is no way.” The PSA contended that the person concerned was probably delusional (in confessing to the crime).
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