The fire sparked national outrage.
This Wednesday, a 29-year-old man confessed to being responsible for a fatal fire in a Johannesburg building last August.
He was arrested by the local police and will soon be brought to justice.
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South Africa: 77 dead including 12 children in fire in squatted building
Police spokesman Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said a "29-year-old man was arrested after confessing to a commission investigating the case that he was involved in starting the tragic fire."
He also indicated that the suspect had not specified the reasons for his action.
He is charged with 76 counts of intentional homicide and 120 attempts.
He will soon be brought before the courts to answer to these charges.
Dozens of deaths
The tragedy caused great emotion in the country, shaken by the sharing of videos of the disaster and the testimonies of people who witnessed it.
Babies thrown out of windows, cries of fear, serious injuries and heavy toll… The fire that occurred on the night of August 31, 2023 left 77 dead and 88 injured.
The building ravaged by the disaster housed some 200 families, including many migrants.
The occupants found themselves trapped and many bodies were found behind locked gates.
The fire, among the deadliest in the world in the last twenty years, broke out in a four-story building in the disreputable and dilapidated center of Johannesburg.
An opulent business district during the apartheid era, the city's now neglected downtown area has many abandoned buildings, often falling into the hands of slumlords.