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Drone footage shows scale of damage after Johannesburg building fire

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Video shows the charred remains of a building in central Johannesburg that caught fire on Thursday, killing more than 70 people including 12 children.

An estimated 400 vulnerable people lived in the building at 80 Albert Street on an informal basis. They included extremely poor people predominantly from Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and a number of South Africans. Many of the survivors have been left destitute in the aftermath of the fire, though authorities have promised to provide support.

Loren Landau, a professor of migration at the University of the Witwatersrand, said the building's neglect has its roots in South Africa's apartheid era. 'All of Johannesburg still is shaped by the apartheid architecture and architecture of fundamental economic, social, racial segregation,' he said.

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