| From apartheid pass office to shell housing shacks: What we know about 80 Albert Street

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The site of the fire in Johannesburg, which left 73 people dead at last count on Thursday, started out as the Central Pass Office, which rigidly controlled the movement of black people in the city during the apartheid era.

When the apartheid government was voted out in 1994, the building's use changed, and it was converted into a women's hostel, then renamed the Usindiso Women's Shelter. According to a

She said an assessment by the City's environmental health inspectors had found a sudden influx of informal dwellers, water seeping through the walls straight into the health facility,"vagrants" partitioning the building’s top floors, and illegal connections to the clinic’s water and electricity system.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

 

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