Why are buildings being hijacked in South Africa?
\u201cWhat I saw was really traumatizing. It was traumatic to see people jumping out of a building\u201d\n \nOn the 31st of August, a fire destroyed a block of flats in the Johannesburg inner city, in South Africa.\n \nA total of 77 people died while dozens of others remain in hospital.\n \nThe police are still investigating how the fire started.\n \nThe authorities say those who died in the catastrophe were living in the derelict and abandoned building illegally.\n \nThis is part of what has been described as \u2018building hijacking\u2019.\n \nAfrica Daily\u2019s Mpho Lakaje in Johannesburg speaks to former mayor Herman Mashaba and constitutional law expert Pierre de Vos, to get an understanding of this problem.