After receiving final report on George building collapse, Macpherson vows to 'work towards accountability'

CAPE TOWN - Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson said that the survivors and families of victims of the George building collapse would soon have some answers on what exactly happened on that day.
 
This after the minister received the final report from the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) on Monday, into the tragic building collapse in George more than a year ago.
 
The council investigated the conduct of the engineers on site and what action should be taken against them.

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On 6 May last year, 34 construction workers lost their lives when a partially built five-storey building collapsed, burying them under 6,000 tonnes of rubble.
 
This led to an extensive 11-day search and recovery operation at the site on 75 Victoria Road, where 28 more workers were pulled alive from the rubble with serious injuries.
 
Macpherson said that accountability could not be optional when human lives are lost due to human error.
  
"As I have said before, this collapse was entirely preventable, and we will therefore work towards accountability and address any errors which may have been identified."
  
He said they wanted to ensure that a tragedy such as this never happened again.