Survivor of Usindiso building fire tells inquiry she woke up in hospital two days after blaze 

A survivor of the Usindiso building fire in the Johannesburg CBD, Busisiwe Mhlebi, has told the commission of inquiry into the deadly fire on August 31 2023 she woke up in hospital two days after the blaze to hear her teenage daughter had died. The commission, chaired by retired Constitutional Court judge Sisi Khampepe, is investigating the cause of the fire that killed more than 70 people. Mhlebi said she jumped from the fourth floor with her partner and two-year-old child on the day of the fire and her daughter stayed behind. Another survivor, Nqobile Tshabalala, said firefighters waited 20 minutes before they started extinguishing the fire.