# Minister of Public Works Dean Macpherson says stronger accountability must be part of a wider effort to reduce construction deaths, alongside better municipal enforcement, professional oversight, and information sharing between regulators. He released findings into four recent building and structural incidents in Redcliffe in Verulam, eThekwini; Doornkop in Soweto; Ormonde in Johannesburg; and the Magnolia Development in Sea Point, Cape Town, which claimed 17 lives and left 24 people injured. Macpherson says construction professionals whose negligence contributed to deaths should face criminal charges:
Minister Macpherson says criminal charges are necessary to stop people from cutting corners in construction [SOUND]
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