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Nkateko Mabasa

A year after Johannesburg building fire, survivors feel abandoned by city

Fire survivors Sibongile Majavava, her partner Muhdi and their three-year-old daughter at a shelter on the outskirts of the city [Nkateko Mabasa/Al Jazeera]

Johannesburg, South Africa – Sibongile Majavava sits outside her small tent shack at the Wembley stadium homeless shelter on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg, her third temporary home since a deadly fire tore through the building she was living in a year ago.

The 34-year-old South African, her Tanzanian partner, Muhdi, 36 and their toddler have been hoping to get back on their feet since the August 2023 blaze in the dilapidated Usindiso building in the inner city killed 76 people and left hundreds homeless.

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