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Opinion
Careless council moves have led to shack fires
The adoption of the Slums Clearance Programme in 2001 has denied provision of basic services to our shackland dwellers

September 24, 2008 Edition 1

Imraan Buccus

Little more than a week ago, almost the entire Foreman Road shack settlement in Clare Estate burnt down, leaving thousands destitute. The next morning residents found a body in the ashes. There had also been a devastating fire in the same settlement last year. The photographs of the morning after are apocalyptic.

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Eight die in Cato Crest shack fires
People watch girl (9) die

August 04, 2008 Edition 1

MPUME MADLALA

SHACK dwellers in Cato Crest watched helplessly as a nine-year-old girl burned to death after her home caught fire in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The young girl was one of eight people killed in two separate fires there on the same day.

Three adults, including a pregnant woman and four children, aged seven months, two, the nine-year-old and a 14-year-old, died when their shack was gutted.