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A South African man charged with 76 murders after he confessed to triggering a fire in an illegally-occupied housing block dropped his bid for bail on Thursday. At a court hearing in Johannesburg, magistrate Ulanda Labuschagne postponed 30-year-old Sithembiso Mdlalose’s case until March 6 while investigators continue their investigation. In August last year, a fire ripped through an abandoned building in downtown Johannesburg that was housing dozens of families in appalling conditions, killing more than 70 people.

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