Paarl Media Group's spokeswoman Nelia Burger said management and staff would meet at 8am today to lay flowers at the factory and to further advise staff where to seek help for counselling or medical treatment at the newly established trauma centre.
"All the people [still] in hospital are stable, some are still in ICU but stable and they have been visited by other staff," Burger said.
However, she said it was still not known what caused the fire that claimed the lives of the factory's workers and injured others.
Police were still investigating the incident.
It was first reported on Friday that seven people burnt to death, but by Saturday the number had risen to nine when more bodies were recovered from the burnt-down factory.
Burger said two people were released from hospital, leaving nine still under hospital care.
Two of those in hospital remained in a serious but stable condition, she said.
Burger confirmed that everyone inside the factory at the time of the blaze had since been accounted for.
She said the company had started a family support fund for the victims' next-of-kin and that financial donations or non-perishable food parcels and other useful items would be appreciated. (See www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/73/35135.html).
Anyone with queries could contact a call centre on +27 (0)21 870 3800.
The fire was the second this year at a plant owned by Naspers' subsidiary Paarl Media.
In February a blaze destroyed a R200 million magazine printing press at Paarl Gravure in Cape Town's Montague Gardens, with no casualties.
Friday's fire broke out at Paarl Print, in the Boland town's industrial area, shortly before 8am.
The building housed offices, printing equipment, a bindery and a storage area, and the workers who died were trapped inside.
Fire-fighters from the adjacent Cape Winelands municipality had also been called in to help.
The media group's CEO Stephen van der Walt said: "Bricks and mortar can be rebuilt but losing members of our team is the biggest tragedy and our priority at this time."
Source: Sapa
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