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Demolition contractors are expected on site within days, preparing to take down a third of the buildings, including a fire-damaged school and crumbling church, after they were condemned as structurally unsafe.

The changes will mean the new government will be able to plough significant investment into the military and the country's crumbling infrastructure.

Prof Gumede said the ANC would find it difficult to convince the public to pay more taxes when public services were crumbling.

Some were also found clutching other people's hands, in what looked like attempts to pull them away from the crumbling building.

"The entire system of Euro-Atlantic security is crumbling before our eyes," he said last year.