On 31 August, a blaze ripped through an illegally occupied building on 80 Albert Street in Johannesburg’s inner city, killing 77 people and leaving scores injured.
JOHANNESBURG - In 2018, a building on 80 Albert Street in Marshalltown was hijacked when a group of women allegedly revolted against a non-profit company , and refused to leave what was then a women’s and children’s shelter.According to a research paper, that focused on the shelter as a case study, Pastor Jean Bradley, who had been working with the shelter since 2001, took over its running in 2003.
Former director and chairperson of the Usindiso Ministries board, Pastor Glyn Weldschidt, said depending on a woman’s circumstances, the shelter would house them for between six months to a year. But social development disputed this, claiming the department was only involved in finding a suitable NGO to run the shelter.
This is confirmed in a letter to the Gauteng social development department, dated 24 January 2013, and signed by Weldschidt, which reads:A view of emergency services in the Johannesburg CBD attending to the Marshalltown building fire, which claimed the lives of 77 people. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News
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