Before the fire
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Squatters moved into Drill Hall soon after the military vacated the premises in 1994 City officials planned to move the Drill Hall squatters to a social housing settlement at Vlakfontein The Drill Hall was the scene of the infamous nineteen fifties "Treason Trial" of 156 anti-apartheid activists - including Nelson Mandela City officials planned to restore the Drill Hall, which was expected to be declared a National Monument

How the firemen saw the fire April 9, 2002 Three striking pictures of the Drill Hall blaze, taken by firemen themselves as they battled the blaze RELATED ARTICLES Five burnt to death in Drill Hall inferno FIVE people were burnt to death, and four injured when the 98-year old Drill Hall building in the city centre was set alight during a domestic squabble between two of the hundreds of squatters living in the building. Inside Drill Hall Two weeks before the blaze, reporter THOMAS THALE visits Drill Hall and speaks to the squatters Better Buildings The city's new programme to upgrade or demolish derelict inner city buildings