GEORGE NEWS - National Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has arrived in George amid many allegations being made about the labour force at the doomed construction site in Victoria Street in George.
The minister will brief the media gathered in the city about Monday’s building collapse disaster in George at 12 noon.
He will also visit the collapsed building and is likely to interact and get an update from rescuers and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) inspectors from the Department of Employment and Labour.
The department’s OHS inspectors were dispatched on Monday to the site shortly after the incident occurred.
Nxesi’s visit comes as it was announced this morning that there were in fact 81 workers on site and not 75 as reported earlier.
At this stage it is clear that many of the construction workers are immigrants and it is alleged that some of these workers were in the country illegally and working on site without the correct paperwork or work permits.
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