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Nine-year-old Blayke Fourie, who recently underwent a kidney transplant, got the opportunity to meet his rugby hero, two-time World Cup-winning Springbok Eben Etzebeth and spent the afternoon with him.

Local Government MEC Anton Bredell said the change in figures was picked up by the Department of Labour. “The Department of Labour took all the documents from the site office, secured the documents and started with it systematically,” he explained. Video: Byron Lukas and Ayanda Ndamane Compiled by: Theolin Tembo

George Building Collapse: Moses Malala, 35, who works under a subcontractor called Boss Over Construction, tells the Cape Argus he has been working on the site for seven months, doing bricklaying.

The tally of retrieved patients pulled from the debris of the collapsed building in George has risen to 36. This was as of 5:33am, on Wednesday morning, after a multi-disciplinary rescue team continued working throughout the night. Video: Ayanda Ndamane/Independent Newspapers

Around 200 emergency personnel from the City of Cape Town, Worcester, and Breede Valley have been roped in to assist in the rescue operations of trapped workers after a building collapsed in George on Monday.

At a media briefing on Tuesday, the authorities said the main concern was the plight of those who were still trappedintherubble.

Services at the scene where a building under construction on Victoria Street has collapsed in George. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane /IndependentNewspapers

George Municipality confirmed that a total of four patients have been declared deceased; 24 have been removed from the rubble of the collapsed multi-story construction site, leaving 51 people unaccounted for.

The death toll from the collapse of a five-storey building which was under construction at a site in George, Western Cape, has risen to five.

Services at the scene where a building under construction on Victoria Street has collapsed in George. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane /IndependentNewspapers

George Municipality confirmed that a total of four patients have been declared deceased; 24 have been removed from the rubble of the collapsed multi-story construction site, leaving 51 people unaccounted for