Cape Peninsula fire leaves one dead, four injured

The second fire that hit the Doringbach section of the Du Noon informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula has left one person dead and four others slightly injured. The fire broke out early this morning.

Residents say they have not been able to determine the cause of the fire. The fire follows reports that two additional fires were deliberately started after yesterday's devastating blaze, which destroyed about 500 shacks.

Wilfred Solomons, a spokesperson for the Cape Town disaster management unit, says about 300 shacks were gutted in the latest fires, which broke out at around midnight.

Meanwhile, Richard Dyantyi, the Western Cape local government and housing minister, says they plan to move the community from the area as soon as appropriate land becomes available. Dyantyi visited Doringbach section today. He promised that his department will speed up its processes to properly house this community.

"People settle where they see an empty piece of land and sometimes where they settle it is not necessarily a place meant to settle people where you would have hydrants and other amenities, but when they are here you can't then say they can't be here. All we need to do really is to up our pace in terms of how we move forward about what we need to do about them it might not necessarily be here but we look into speeding up that process." SABC