Maya Schkolne

Sep 20, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Maya Schkolne |Julie MacArthur |Dan Mafora

On September 13, Panyaza Lesufi, the Premier of the Gauteng Province in South Africa, announced the terms of reference for a commission of inquiry to probe the mortal fire in the Usindiso building in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, that killed 77 people, and left others injured and homeless on August 31. Once a central “pass office” under Apartheid, it was used to regulate the movement of black people from the designated self-governing Bantustans (“Homelands”) into white South Africa.