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Premium from the FT – How world sees SA: A fire in Joburg symbolises entire system up in flames
London-based Financial Times comments: “The blaze in Johannesburg tells a story of xenophobia, urban neglect and political dysfunction.”
London-based Financial Times comments: "The blaze in Johannesburg tells a story of xenophobia, urban neglect and political dysfunction."
By David Pilling for The Financial Times
Some disasters, as well as being tragedies in their own right, symbolise broader societal failings. The Grenfell Tower fire of 2017, in which 72 people died when substandard cladding in a London council block ignited in flames, exposed Britain's scandalously lax building codes, especially when it came to poor people.
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