Nhbrc Moves To Discipline Suspended Ceo Over George Building Collapse

The National Home Builders Registration Council is in the process of instituting disciplinary action against its suspended CEO, Songezo Booi, following the collapsed building at George in May last year.

This came out during a meeting of Parliaments Human Settlements Committee. The previous board of the council took a decision to suspend Booi after the preliminary investigation showed there were serious lapses on the part of the council.

Briefing the committee, Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane says the board had also felt Booi was not handling the George collapse matter with the urgency that was required.

And the key was that the CEO, with all the challenges of collapse, lacked urgency to deal with matters currently, the chair and the council are in the process of charging and instituting disciplinary action in relation to that.

Simelane says the plans submitted for the building that collapsed in George in May last year were for a single-story building.