Update: Ash Road burned too... On the same night at the second Kennedy fire in two days 20 shacks burnt down in the Ash Road settlement in Pietermaritzburg. The City is, following the Jadhu Place model and the previous misuse of minor flooding in Ash Road, refusing to allow people to rebuild and trying to force them to accept 'transit camp' accommodation. The Cities create disaster by refusing to invest in shack settlements and then misuse those disasters to legitimate their agenda to eradicate shacks (i.e. to push the poor out of the cities).

Update, 17 February, 2008: Click here to see new video footage of the aftermath of the Foreman Road fire.

There has never been holiday in jondolos, while everyone celebrates Christmas. Abahlali in Foreman Road got up at 11:00pm when their homes were in flames. Most residents have not been around, some were out for Christmas while others went to farms for Christmas. More than two hundreds shacks were burnt down which amounts to about five hundreds people being left homeless including women and children. The fire Dept. came at least quicker than expected although it took them at least four hours before it was fully blown off. No injuries and deaths reported.