The five-storey building that burned last week in Johannesburg.
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The biggest tragedy is politicians failing to see that they’re the midwives of the Marshalltown disaster, argues Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
The fire in the Johannesburg building that claimed at least 77 lives — with the death toll expected to rise— is a tragic representation of what has gone wrong in South African politics.
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