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- 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟬 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯.
It’s a Thursday morning in a hijacked building in Johannesburg’s inner city. A fire breaks out on the first floor and soon sets the dilapidated building ablaze. Trapped inside, dozens of people - men, women, and children - are unable to escape the flames. In the street below, onlookers frantically call for help as people attempt to save themselves by jumping from upper-storey windows. Hours later, as rescue workers pull the dead from the debris, the scale of the disaster becomes clear. Blame is soon shifted to NGOs working in the inner city by officials denying any culpability in the tragedy. But few could argue the victims would not have suffered such excruciating deaths had the warning of at least the past two decades been heeded. The same NGOs as well as the media and several politicians had been warning of the dangers posed by Jo’burg’s hijacked buildings. Yet the problem grew unchecked and now 77 people are dead.
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ANC government is responsible, completely!!!!!!
Sadly the ANC minister blames apartheid!!
They NEVER accept responsibility.
A huge brain storm with ALL the roll prayers including Ground up and residences. Determine critical needs for immidate attention and the way forward. Cannot exclude anyone who needs to be involved.
Yes 💯 because they stole all the money meant to maintain the buildings... ALSO because they let go off doing the right thing to deport the illegal aliens 😮😮
This is so so sad due to incompatancy of the police and the corrupt ANC!!!!😢
When the DA was running Joburg Herman Mashaba tried to solve this issue but ANC and DA fired him! I am not hearing anything about this from the DA fanatics 🤔
@@swazirebel7316
Herman resigned
We can't vote ANC back in power No ways bafethu... Our country is been through alot especially in 2023
They say it’s a wake up call. This hijacking we talk about here we know the nationality and most people who lost their lives are illegal immigrants just like in Western Cape construction building that fell
So, if a person illegally invades and occupied my building they must be GIVEN alternative accommodation as a REWARD for their illegal activities
A sad world we leave in
Yes, mainly thanks to the PIE act & some daft judge in the WC.
make it make sense, the constitution has to be revisited and amended accordingly
Mashaba did mention the nationality of those involved in this crimes but media and people labelled him xenophobic
We need to look at ourselves in the mirror and take responsibility for our actions. We do NOT have an ANC problem in South Africa, we have a voting electorate problem. With great power comes great responsibility. Accept responsibility for your actions, this is our own fault.
This right here is the smartest thing I've heard in a long time.
True
We support criminality everyday and yet we complain of the deterioration. You can't have it both ways.
Truth. We fail choosing our leaders and also fail holding them responsible for what is going around
30 years ago Hillbrow never looked like this ANC If you have done your JOB IN A PROPER MANOR this DISASTER would have been prevented from happening
When the DA was running Joburg Herman Mashaba tried to solve this issue but ANC and DA fired him! I am not hearing anything about this from the DA fanatics 🤔
You must see how Durban is deteriorating. Donald Trump was right
@@AnnaMarrie-SWTCruel error, had many positives and negatives. However that cruel error would have never allowed such a thing to happen to any human being. That same cruel error would have arrested you and dropped you off at a trade school and found you a job.
It was sketchy 30 years ago. Bella Napoli was still going but those side alleys were no-go areas. I lived in PTA but I am pretty sure I stopped going around that time.
The legacies of the ANC government
South Africa under ANC leadership.
My father was on Carte Blanche in early 90's and he literally said this will become major issues. It was the episode about ANC stealing from the RDP housing funds and screwing over the private businesses (like my father's at the time) who were set to build RDP housing for the people.
He was silenced for speaking out against the ANC (and for appearing on Carte Blanche, anonymously) it completely ruined his livelihood. He was blacklisted by the banks under ANC orders, which made it difficult for him to continue his business... he went under because he had to pay his workers out of his own pocket waiting for the ANC's funds as was promised at the, but that was the early days before people like all South Africans now know how corrupt the ANC would become and the funds were shared with cronies and not the people. These unbelievable stresses eventually got to my dad, which killed him. RIP dad 😢and F the ANC
Oh my goodness this is horrible. So sorry this happened to your dad and your family. Wow. 😔
I concur. F the ANC. And I'm so sorry for what your dad, his employees and your family went through💔
I'm sorry hey, when people think about corruption, rarely is the human cost counted over money.
This would never have happened under the old regime yet the ANC still blames apartheid. At least the apartheid government looked after their people.
Yes people enjoy ANC service shame 😂
Yes, the apartheid government looked after white people very well.
Just like the apartheid gov took care of only their own, the ANC takes care of it’s own. It’s not a race thing domkop, it’s a corruption thing. Both parties are grossly corrupt, you’re just happy to defend the one that represented your skin colour.
These are facts
Yes, the apartheid government took care of white people. Must be great to be white.
Can we not praise apartheid when try to make this statements
The government is too busy filling their own pockets. May all the victims rest in peace.
Almost 30 years.. this goverment is totally USELESS
1.5hrs for an ambulance to arrive 🙈🙈🙈 Another “wake up call”. How many does the ANC needs? Sounds like they’re in a coma
When is Carte Blanche receiving the Pulitzer Prize? Truthfully‼️☝🏾. The wealth and depth of information and how you report on issues in the way they should to enlighten many of us and expose truths. And we can enjoy the benefit of it being made accessible through CZcams and not necessarily through paid channels.
Systematic and intentional cruelty by humans beings on one another. Mankind needs re-engineering. This is beyond reproach 💔
The film Jerusalema about this came out in 2008. Stories about hijacked buildings where the owner had fled are much older than that. The crooks in power have no interest in fixing this because they make money from it. Disgusting
There is no hope for South Africa. It will only get worse.
Hijackers nationality is known. But we say it then we are xenophobic
But if NGOs really care about people who live in these buildings, do they really come and see the living conditions?? Isn't that a violation of human rights?
You see the problem is they would have no where to go which is what the NGO’s are saying. Which can be said to be a bigger “problem” than poor living conditions.
the law says if one wants to evict them one must find them alternative accommodation within 10 kilometers radius of were thy are staying now,
@@JVan-ic6ic I am talking bout the living conditions, shouldn't they come and inspect this place either on monthly or quarterly basis?
I am a homeless I do not live off hand outs but look at the STATE our COUNTRY is in AFTER 30YRS OF ANC RULE I again say ministers sitting in Parliament are only there to ENRICH THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES WITH CORRUPTION OUT OF CONTROL
@@eisbeinGermany That law is part of the problem -in that it creates an incentive for people to occupy such buildings with the hope of being provided with alternative accommodation.
Get rid of ANC. Simple solution.
Why are these poor people still having children, they can't afford them, don't put a, child through such a nightmare
But this are illegal immigrant and we are labelled xenophobic as South Africans. The lady who is hiding her face in green jacket is Zimbabwean Ndebele you can hear the words pronounciation
How long have south Africans been singing the same song about police being corrupt and nothing happens...this country is disgusting
We need Mashaba to head up all the Metropolitains in SA. He has more experience than anyone else. He'll fix our cities.
Then People need to vote Action SA. They are making strides to fix S.A but if people continue to vote for a failing system we won't see change.
The ANC said Mashaba was xenophobic, they must take responsibility and accountability
I remember NGO's saying that
I never use to blame the government before I moved from home South Africa to another country and I was always focusing on people/us degrading our own country. The exposure that I now possess, with no doubt the leading party is a disgrace. You can't be in power for this long with not even a single government department running smoothly.
The entire country is like this
All these hijackers should be arrested; prosecuted and jailed.
How when money buys you power and corruption runs rampanant.
@@alucardhellsing1037 that is why we need to go out and vote for a government that will protect our borders and proper security forces that protects the citizens and not work for the ANC Organisation and associates; DA and the leaders that joined them want to save SA from the malice and evil of the ANC and eff and the New World Order knocking on our door🙏
Our jails are already full.
@@mazwideamahle4091 there is Robbin Island
The jails are already overcrowded.
The country sure is floating fast down the sewer!!!!
It is not a lack of housing again ANC you are supposed to look after your country's people first so all people that in South Africa ILLEGALLY should be deported back to their country SOUTH AFRICANS should get first option for HOUSING you cannot take care of your COUNTRY'S PEOPLE so WHY ALLOW THE POOREST OF POOR INTO THE COUNTRY
It's because of all the foreign people that are in our country they must be deported if they not having any documents. The tax payers must pay for everything that they want in South-Africa thats why they coming here.They bring the whole family here recieved R350 make use of hospitals and clinics thats why the the people must wait so lanog if they go to clinic or hospital.
Lets all be honest we waisting our time. We knew about these buildings years ago. How much money is being lost with over 100 buidlings being highjacked
1000
What a sad day in South Africa this should have never had happened and the problem should be on the anc government that has failed all the citizens of South Africa because of the corrupt officials that are opened to bribery to self enriching
They don’t do their work and are always surprised and on a reactive strategy, in fact the entire ANC Government doesn’t know anything about delivery of services.
Anybody held accountable? Who owns it? Who runs it? If no one, then gavernment must answer!!
Edward Molopi (SERI) & Nothando Shongwe (LHR) are the guilty parties here. They were (& still are) advocating for these people to remain in such buildings, whilst at the same time encouraging more buildings to be hijacked with the promise that the occupiers will be provided with alternative accommodation.
What a perfect example of how South Africa is deteriorating, you can see the urban decay in the mampara province of KZN.
All this leads right back to government ANC
and these NGO's are often foreign or foreign funded - why must the city provide accommodation to illegal foreigners as well? It's a loop of disater and Mashaba was on the right path of taking action.
That’s the question… NGO need to be regulated as well and monitored… corruption is killing our people and our beautiful country
NGO’s is about making money. They’re not interested in the causes they pretend to be involved in.
Those buildings should be bulldozed.
These journalists / ladies are pure class . I tend to be a very critical American. But they are ace ❤
We've become a 3rd world garbage dump(
No human being should subject themselves to such inhumane conditions.
Shocking. An atrocity and it shows South Africa as a shameful country. Where is responsible leadership?
And the responsibilities of the governments where these economic migrants come from? Surely we cannot be responsible for other people. We have enough issues ourselves
Same problem in Sunnyside.
Not really.
Not really.
@@ThapeloHorusLetaoana0508inner city always decays over time. It is the natural progression of a city. But, maybe it isn't as bad as Jhb.
Thing is the people who have the power to change this don’t give a f. Starts and ends with ANC
Those buildings don't pay rates and taxes
We see cops collecting cash in those buildings
They are ran by people who want don't want to pay tax
Wake up call so Ramaphosa is not aware that these are a housing problem in SA
These ppl pay someone so FOLLOW the money.
I don't think the buildings should be demolished bit rather be renovated and rented out to youth that is on need of offices and spaces to run businesses but lacking funds. For instance, they can pay rates, electricity and water but not pay rent. Like the RDP structure but created for youths to have business offices because the issue of South Africa is youths sitting unemployed with the necessary skills but without the capital or being inaccessible to your market. The CBD is a place where people should be going to do business, not squat in hijacked and unregulated buildings.
Just across the street is a perfect example of how such buildings could be improved for residents and the city at large.
The building was never designed from day dot for housing !!
I hate that I can’t download these episodes anymore. I used to binge watch during Loadsheding
Some of theses buildings can be renovated and be occupied by tenants or companies to generate tax for the country, to develop the city, which would increase the value of the rand and increase jobs for the people.
Who do you think is gonna pay. Its a buiding full of shacks. They dont have money because of our current money hungry goverment. The anc must take resonsibility they caused this.
I concur!!!!
@@johanvermeulen3629 the land sold to property developers at land rates could turn it into profit, it’s easy to be negative but solutions are available to avoid this happening again. Building also burnt in CPT.
When businesses vacated tge city of joburg in tge 90s, those building should have been refurbished and given to S.Africans as social housing....the city would be much better looking as people tend to look after what consider their own.. most of our old townships are still much cleaner abd functional.
@@mazwideamahle4091 true, lack of governance from our government to control this, basically to do their jobs.
We need fearless leaders in SA honestly. Leaders who think about people's lives first before money, and I honestly don't see anyone like within are current political spectrum.
Easy. Follow the money. These people are paying to rent these buildings. But would be done only if the officials are willing to do so.
It's a shame.
When the DA was running Joburg Herman Mashaba tried to solve this issue but ANC and DA fired him! I am not hearing anything about this from the DA fanatics 🤔
Get you facts this is all anc running this country into the ground. If you vote anc stop complainning.
He resigned
The DA supporters never speak about how the DA pushed him out
@@metalcake2288 Because the DA forced him out. he was helping poor communities and the DA didn't like that!
But then again, how do criminals resolve other criminals?
Blame the NGO's that fight property law in SA.. get rid of the foreign financed NGO's
Noluthando and Edward are to blame. They don't want these people to be moved. These people must be deported, South Africa is also bleeding it can't even take care of its own people. Open borders are collapsing this country. These buildings must be demolished, period.
how is people being allowed to hijack a building in the first place? that means everybody in the city center is involved in a crime of some sort.
That fact that this building was owned by the city, you know if it was a private building charges would be brought forward
And this is exactly what will happen to ALL houses, apartments, properties... if expropriation takes place! Even if the government becomes custodial of everything. This is what will happen!! Truth! Yes Mr R...a wake up call indeed...but not in the way I think you meant...though I'm no longer sure you even know what a wake up call even means😢
😂 building hijacking’s 😂 South Africa has been hijacked a long time ago and will continue to 🔥 until The Fight for Impunity is won. The only way to win a war is to have no mercy, no remorse and no compassion and sadly in the end, war has no winners only casualties.
Its not only in Joburg that this deplorable practise is in the order of the day, but in about every city or town in S.A. The tip of the iceberg is discovered.
This why ActionSA sees big gains in JHB.
Joke😮😂😂😂
Dont worry Johan your DA will be in the ANCs pants in 2024 and make you very proud! @@johanvermeulen3629
Proudly brought to u by the ANC.
time for the ANC gov to leave!!!
They should have left years ago. Go and look at the RDP houses the illegal immigrants took them
Thabo Mbeki is a living Legend... That man said ANC will loose the Western Cape... That will affect other big metropolitans... 10 years later what happened?
The main problem that the government needs to pay more focus into, is the high influx of illegal or undocumented foreign nationals. There are those who use these kinds of opportunities to get the RDP houses while South Africans who are entitled of receiving the RDP houses get nothing.
You and your people are to Blame for this countries downfall so anybody with the type of surname you have has lost all credibility....this B.e e is full of people that have jobs that don't deserve it
When has that happened?
@@metalcake2288 Nothando Shongwe is advocating for it in the video; insisting that the occupiers be provided with alternative accommodation, in the meantime people who haven't hijacked any buildings have been on waiting lists for decades.
How can an illegal foreigner get an RDP??
This is a very sensitive subjects especially to none South African citizens, as they feel like this subject is directed at them. I hope that this is not the case here because I know for a fact that most South Africans would not even bother asking such questions because they witness this problem every day. There are foreign nationals with false SA identities who are currently living in the RDP houses. It is very easy this process in this country, all you need is money.
ANC ...at its best
Thank u once again anc for yet another failure.
SA needs a new government
R1200 for a bed. Yes it is in the suburbs, come to Florida Lake. Imagine what could be done if that building was run properly
First, prevent hijacking of buildings. Other stuff the lawyer mentioned is obvious, but not the solution to such tragedies from happening again.
These human rights activist always don't have solutions. They prevent problems from being solved
Proudly brought to you by the ANC
No subsidies, there are still many empty buildings, start fixing one, move people there make sure the structures are in place that slum lords cannot take over. Then move to the building that now should be empty, fix it up and move on to 1000 buildings
Blame it on the municipal coalitions, the NGO's and the human rights organisations this country is full of law fare there is so much litigation at the receiving end its the poor people who suffer either way!
The governments needs to start at the boarders because most people occupying those building are not South African nationals, their own govenrnment should be looking after them. Tax payers funds should not be used for foreign nationals most of which are criminals.
After 30 years of open borders, what do you expect
These lawyers are also part of the problem.
The have to be arrested by now they here to distabilise the country
I think the South African boarders should be properly monitored to ensure no further overpopulation and then an different government should be elected to improve the housing and crime problem
Who owns this building? Their loss should be acknowledged. Not the hijackers- they are criminals
Leitch comes from the Cape flats, where she probably had a more privileged upbringing. She has been in that position since Feb this year, and is clueless to the extent of the problem. How is she really linked within the PA?
Rumours are she's Gayton Mckenzie's baby momma. So you work out the link.
@@DanielSchay Had that suspicion of some connection.
Agree with you Cape flats are a very scary place indeed it's like no mans land 😮
There is nothing privileged about growing up in the Cape Flats
It all depends where you are on the gangster connection hierarchy@@dianefloris9439
The problem here mostly is the NGOs like SERI(I know these bunch from experience) and thw courts that keep undermining government efforts to clean the city,the second problem is the municipality itself,they really dont care as they claim lastly the illegal foreigners that swarm the streets and occupies these building is staggering...
Correction, Mashaba resigned he was not ousted. He tried to sort this mess out but but the cANCer inherited from the liberation movement was much deeper and they resisted his intervention.
He resigned because he didn't agree with the ANC he was the mayor of Jo'burg Braamfontein is beautiful
No. He resigned because the DA wasn't allowing him to take care of the poor people, the DA only provides for the privilege
@@Kal.99 He still resigned and was not ousted as the video repeatedly suggests.
@@Kal.99 hahaha can see you just commenting you know jack.
@@nd0nd042 yes, I did not dispute that did I?
How do we still even Consider ANC again,it's going to be 100 times worse.
This is even happening in Durban, foreigners owning buildings that are not suitable to live people
NGO's are just as resposible for this, seeing they fight the process all the way. SERI big problem NGO.
They work with the PIE act (which must be repealed) plus some plainly daft rulings from the courts.
Eff got in the middle when Joburgers and police try get in these buildings and houses that are hijacked , when they were looking for kidnapped young girls. Eff fought helping these people who didn't want community that helped brothers of these young children. Eff is to be blamed for every mess SA is facing, iyhooo that one is areally Domkop, and he has children who one day might be affected by his poor behavioranddecisions. And our ANC government guilty for being so lenient with these criminals, and too soft to the point that SA is not respected by anyone who comes and never goes away without fearing consequences . Ramaphosa has a mistake of trusting that people coming here are here because of something they are running away from, and don't even want to be documented, fearing they'll be traced. Ramaphosa and his government has totally failed to govern the country, because he's yes sir , yes sir , yes sir, but never no sir and put the foot down and "say , fokof and voetsek all of you, go home ".
I have work to do to this home and that work is not you.
All governments do that daily for the purpose of protecting their nation and country. Ramaphosa is clueless when it comes to protecting the country nation as priority. He's careless coward , and he's just absent to what he is supposed to be concerned about, and seems he doesn't even care anymore. This shoe was never his size from the start. 😮😮 .
Mashaba was never ousted as mayor, he resigned and the left the people of Joburg city without a mayor and gave the city back to the wolfs of the ANC. All this after he told us all that he cared for the citizens of Joburg, hogwash.
We know how our politicians operate, let’s face the truth and not sugar coat issues..
Gov don't care. Simple. They forgot it already
I would like to ask what Nothando and the other NGO's who advocate on behalf of the illegal occupants in the hi-jacked buildings doing to track down the people who are pocketing the "rent" and instigating legal action against them to force them to improve the living standard and safety in the hijacked buildings instead of going on at the municipalities and saying it is governments problem.
I knew that the government officials and police are involved. The government officials would be the ones with info on vacant buildings while it would be the police's job to make sure those buildings are evacuated.
The problem with fixing things in South Africa is that they say it's illegal foreigners then nothing happens why are they not cleaning up the buildings repurposing them fixing them up
its not a wake up call its goodbye
Change the alternative housing clause?
With an open border policy, this will only get worse.
Who are these hijackes though. Are they locals or foreigners
The main issue in all of this, is the Law of eviction and it needs to be amended cuz you can never expect me the owner of the property after none payment of rental and eviction, am still expected to find you accommodation within 10km radius in which you can also reject is that fair enough 🤷♂️
The whole Johannesburg
CBD is a crime scene.
World class African city...there we go...too much quality...
Nyaope's need to go back to their homes. I think 50% or 60% is nyaopes there.
The government or police wont admit to eating the pie😂😂😂 we all know they are so lets change governments
Foreigners must go home Christmas is over we re tired 😮😮😮😮
Firstly, you have to arrest and prosecute the criminal element!!!! One can always set up tents and temporary structures, while a building undergoes reconstruction, and built up to code, then systematically allow previous tenants to lease/rent from the buildings (newly set up) body corporate, that assists whichever municipality that district falls under. That would b a start. But who am I to tell government how to tacle existing housing crisis.
The same buildings must refurbished in partnership with the private sector and create low cost housing.
But we'd still have a problem.....where do we accommodate the millions others.
@@mazwideamahle4091are you saying we must wait until we can answer that?