No contact any more with entrapped workers: hope fading at collapsed George building site

Most of the families of 44 people unaccounted for were gathered at the site on Thursday

09 May 2024 - 12:24 By Siphokazi Mnyobe and Brandon Nel

Hope was slowly diminishing in George as the rescue operation entered its third day at the site where a building collapsed in Victoria Street...

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