For as long as shackdwellers are denied electricity the fires will keep coming. Winter is the worst time. But they come all the time. When the eThekwini Municipality decided to 'discontinue the electrification of the informal settlements' they were deciding to continue with avoidable fires rampaging through people's lives. Their electrificity policy states that 'In past (1990s) electrification was rolled out to all and sundry...electrification of the informal settlements has now been discontinued'.

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