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Rescue workers at the site of a collapsed mall construction site in Tongaat. (Giordano Stolley, Sapa)
Rescue workers at the site of a collapsed mall construction site in Tongaat. (Giordano Stolley, Sapa)

Durban - Durban businessman Jay Singh on Wednesday told the commission of inquiry investigating the Tongaat Mall collapse that the building site was always safe.

Singh blamed the mall's collapse on 19 November 2013, in which two workers were killed, squarely on design engineer Andre Ballack.

"It was the engineer," he said, when asked by advocate Ian Topping, for the eThekwini Metro municipality, who he thought was responsible.

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