Hundreds of people have been left homeless, following a devastating shack fire in Khayelitsha.
Hundreds of people have been left homeless, following a devastating shack fire at the TTS informal settlement, in Town Two, Khayelitsha. Two people died in the blaze which also destroyed around 150 informal structures. However, this number may increase once the site has been completely assessed.
Homeless, with nowhere to go and nothing left. These residents have lost their dwellings and all their belongings after a fire raged through the area where they live. “The fire started yesterday and there was too much wind so we couldn’t save anything. I’m here, I don’t have anything, just as you see me now, I don’t have anything to eat, anything to wear, all the properties of the house are not there,” says resident Fezeka Mafuya.
“We feel so bad. We have nothing, no food, no blankets, nothing, we are homeless now. We have children here, parents and we don’t have anywhere to go,” says another resident Lunga Matafeni. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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