Today Marks One Year Since Usindiso Building Fire

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today marks one year since usindiso building fire

Today marks exactly one year since a deadly inferno engulfed the Usindiso building in Marshalltown in the Johannesburg inner city.

In the aftermath of the fire in which 76 people were killed and hundreds of others left homeless.

It later emerged that the five-storey building was one of the many hijacked buildings in the inner city.

The Usindiso building was home to many internal and external migrants, seeking new opportunities in the economic hub.

The fire brought attention to the hundreds of overcrowded hijacked buildings in the Johannesburg CBD, including a large number of undocumented migrants to South Africa.