Cape Town: API that destroyed the part of the South African Parliament, swallowed the National Assembly and threatened national property, has been controlled, the firefighters said on Monday, when the police collected the suspect sadly.
The fire broke out on Sunday morning in the oldest wing of Cape Town Complex, triggering Inferno fanned by the crew throughout the day.
“The fire was controlled at night,” said spokesman Jermaine Carelse, added that the team still put out the fire in the historical wood paired part where he began.
“Most of the damage is in the National Assembly Building,” Carelse said.
“It won’t be used for months.” Previously, Parliament spokesman Molo Mothapo said the roof of the assembly had collapsed and the fire was “very intense” in the building part of the firefighters forced to retreat.
“All rooms where members sit …
have been burned,” he said.
There were no victims reported.
President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters at the scene on Sunday that a man had been held and that the building sprinkler system seemed to fail.
The police said on Monday that they had collected a 49-year-old man they arrested in parliament the day before.
The man, who will appear in court on Tuesday, has been accused of “housebreaking, burning” and a destructive state property, said Elite Elang Police Unit.
Officers of parliamentary chairman must meet on Monday with the Minister of Public Works Patricia de Lille to take stock of destruction.
Jean-Pierre Smith, member of the Mayor of Cape Town’s committee for safety and security, told reporters throughout the complex have suffered water damage and extensive fire.
“Nothing” was left over from the historic part of the building, which was completed in 1884, he said.
This is where Parliament makes treasure including around 4,000 inheritance and artwork, some of which are dating back to the 17th century.
The collection includes rare books and original copies of former African African African “Die Stem Van SUID-Africa”) songs), which have been damaged.
It also has a rug of keiskamma 120 meters (390 feet), named after the river in the southeast of the country, which tracks the history of South Africa from the first indigenous peoples, SAN, to the 1994 historical democracy elections.
After damaging the wings of older buildings, fire spread to parts Newer than the complex.
About 70 firefighters were deployed on Sundays, some used cranes to spray water on flames.
About 20 remained at the scene on Monday to extinguish the remaining fire.
The picture broadcast on the television previously showed a giant fire that jumped from the roof.
The area around the flames was quickly closed, with Cordon stretching to the square where flowers were still shown in front of the St.
Cathedral.
George is nearby, where the Anti-Apartheid Icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu takes place on Saturday.
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 Klerk, announced in 1990 a plan to dismantle the minority white rules.
Parliament houses consist of three parts, with newer additions built in the 1920s and 1980s.
In March other fire also broke in the older parliament wing, but was quickly contained.
Cape Town experienced another big fire in April, when lit on a famous desk table overlooking the spread of the city, dismantling the University of Cape Town library which holds a unique collection of African archives.