Three people burnt to death in a shack fire that broke out in Nyanga, Cape Town, shortly after midnight on Saturday.
Western Cape police Inspector Elliot Sinyangana said 68 shacks burnt down before emergency services workers put out the fire…
The shack fire follows another at Khayamnandi informal settlement at Stellenbosch on Friday in which around 1 000 shacks were razed.
Residents have since been housed in tents at a sports ground in the town. Read More
26/02/2006
About 90 people were left destitute after a fire in an informal settlement in Hout Bay, the Cape Town municipality said today.
Wilfred Solomons, the spokesperson for the city’s disaster management service, said 52 shacks in the Mandela Park informal settlement were burnt down after an unattended candle tipped over in the early hours of yesterday morning. The man who left the candle unattended sustained first degree burns and was recovering in hospital. SABC
InternAfrica doubt that only 1.73 people live in a shack in Mandela Park, the fire average is 4 people per shack, and national housing average of 5 per shack. We estimate 221 citizens displaced by this habitat disaster.
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