Usindiso Building (2023 Fire Site)
Corner Alberts and Delvers Streets, Marshalltown, Johannesburg
Usindiso Building (2023 Fire Site), at Corner Alberts and Delvers Streets, Marshalltown, Johannesburg in Johannesburg, is documented in official city records and court papers as a hijacked building. Its current official status is recorded as: Under Investigation. The tracker classifies it as extreme risk. An estimated 200 people are reported to be living there. 1 fire incident has been documented at this address.
Documented details
Site of the August 31 2023 fire that killed 77 people — South Africa's deadliest inner-city building fire. Building was a former women's shelter that had been hijacked by criminal syndicates. Residents were cooking on paraffin stoves with illegal electricity connections. A 29-year-old man was arrested for starting the fire on the orders of a Tanzanian drug dealer.
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Data is sourced from City of Johannesburg GFIS audit records, court papers obtained through public reporting, official municipal revitalisation plans, and documented fire incidents. Properties are described according to their official legal or municipal status — for example, “subject to eviction proceedings” or “classified as derelict under municipal audit” — rather than asserted as fact by Odyssey Tools independently.
This data is aggregated solely from official municipal filings, public court documentation, and published journalistic sources. It does not constitute independent valuation, legal advice, or structural assessment by Odyssey AI Labs. This tracker covers a documented sample — the City of Johannesburg alone reports 188 active hijacked building cases citywide.