South Africa Parliament Chamber Where Lawmakers Sit Destroyed By Fire
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Cape Town: A big fire destroyed the South African parliament on Sunday when police said a suspect would appear in court in a week on fire.
The investigation has been opened into the fire which began at around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday on the oldest wing of the Parliament complex, which was completed in 1884 and had a wooden paneled room.
When the day conscious, smoke can be seen billowing from the building against the blue sky.
“All space where members sit … have been burned,” said Parliament spokesman Moloapo Mothapo, added that the fire was still not extinguished and two fire seems to have been triggered in two areas separate from the area.
There were no victims reported.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters to the scene that a man had been held and that the building sprinkler system seemed to fail.
The following week, the police said a 51-year-old suspect was due in court.
“A man has been arrested in parliament, he is still interrogated. We have opened a criminal case. He has been arrested and will appear in court on Tuesday,” said Police spokesman Mbambo Thandi Mbambo.
This historic parliament building accommodates a collection of rare books and original copies of the former Afrikaans National Anthik “Die Stem Van Suid-Africa” (“South African Voice”), which has been damaged.
“The roof of the old assembly building has collapsed and lost,” Jean-Pierre Smith, member of the Mayor of Cape Town’s committee for safety and security, told reporters before.
“The whole building suffered damage to smoke and extensive water,” Smith said, adding “the fire had not been contained”.
After damaging the older building wings, the flame spread to a newer part of the complex which is currently used.
“The firefighters are currently trying to control fire in the new wing, where the fire has affected the national assemblies,” Mothapo told a press conference online during the day.
Meters of tutu burial
A team of firefighters who first arrived at the scene against the flame for several hours before being forced to retreat and call for reinforcements.
About 70 firefighters were then used, some use cranes to spray water on the fire.
Former Mayor of Cape Town and Minister Currently Patricia De Lille warned for a few hours before the fire was taken under control.
In the room, gray gray shower fell from the ceiling to the floor, which was filled with debris.
Emergency services say they are afraid of fire can spread quickly through old rooms, which are decorated with wood, thick carpets and curtains.
The picture broadcast on the television previously showed a giant fire that jumped from the roof.
The area around the API in the upper class environment is quickly closed.
Cordon stretches to the square where flowers are still shown in front of St. Cathedral. George nearby, where the Anti-Apartheid Icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Funeral took place on Saturday.
After a simple, no-frills mass, with a cheap coffin – in accordance with the famous Tutu instructions that are simple – the abys are buried in the cathedral on Sunday.
Second fire in a year
Cape Town has been home to South African parliament homes since 1910, when separate administration formed an English trade union and became a predecessor for the Republic of South Africa modern.
This site includes the National Assembly and the Upper National National Council, while the government is based in Pretoria.
It was in parliament where the last apartheid president of South Africa, Fw De Clerk announced in 1990 plans to dismantle the brutal white-white minority regime.
Parliament houses consist of three parts, with newer additions built in the 1920s and 1980s.
The parliamentary chairman will meet on Monday with the Minister of Public Works Patricia de Lille to take stock of damage.
Cape Town: A big fire destroyed the South African parliament on Sunday when police said a suspect would appear in court in a week on fire. The investigation has been opened into the fire which began at around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday on the oldest wing of the Parliament complex, which was completed in 1884…