Most of the Jadhu Place settlement burnt down early on Sunday morning after a candle was knocked over. Jadhu was one of the first settlements to join Abahlali baseMjondolo back in 2005. At least 1 500 people have been left homeless by this fire. The City has provided large tents for people left homeless and instructed them not to rebuild their shacks. They are misusing this disaster to turn a long established shack settlement, a community with a proud history, into a transit camp.

Obed Mlaba's house is symbolically burnt on 28 November 2008 in protest at the plague of fires.