Fire

Father’s heartbreaking 15-month search for baby’s body after Marshalltown fire

Broken promises and dashed hopes in Mike Ngulube’s desperate quest to locate Memory’s misplaced body

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News | 4 December 2024

Hundreds left homeless after shack fire at one of Durban’s oldest informal settlements

About 150 shacks at Kenville informal settlement were gutted on Wednesday afternoon

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Brief | 28 November 2024

Khayelitsha residents up in arms over poor sanitation and “crumbling” homes

SANCO also wants the City of Cape Town and not national government to be responsible for helping fire victims

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Brief | 21 November 2024

Mother of three dies in Cape Town shack fire

Eight shacks burnt down in Marikana informal settlement on the weekend leaving 24 people homeless

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Brief | 11 November 2024

Four dead in Cape Town shack fires

We are happy to have survived, says Khayelitsha shop owner

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Brief | 28 October 2024

Over 70 people left homeless after Khayelitsha fire

Fire victims say they do not have the means to rebuild their homes

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Brief | 21 October 2024

Trash dumped at councillor’s office in electricity protest

Power has not been restored for a year to Dunoon fire victims

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Brief | 26 September 2024

Woman in wheelchair narrowly escapes death in Dunoon shack fire

Nearly 50 people left homeless

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Brief | 9 September 2024

Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

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News | 6 September 2024

Survivors mark anniversary of tragic Marshalltown fire

100 people gather at Usindiso building to light candles

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Brief | 2 September 2024

Hijacked building fire survivors say their new living conditions are unbearable

Four people died and more than 200 people were displaced when a fire broke out at yet another hijacked building in Jeppestown

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News | 27 August 2024

Marshalltown fire survivors to launch class action against City of Johannesburg

A year after the tragedy, survivors and families of those who died in the Usindiso building want compensation

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News | 26 August 2024

Eastern Cape health centre doesn’t comply with fire safety rules

The Dutywa Health Centre, where the incinerator room was gutted by fire on Saturday, does not have a valid compliance certificate

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News | 21 August 2024

Shops destroyed by fire in downtown Joburg

Ward councillor believes the building had been hijacked

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Brief | 19 August 2024

Joburg fire survivor pleads for help to recover his baby’s body

Marshalltown Fire Justice Campaign calls for City to compensate victims and release remaining bodies at the morgue

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News | 31 July 2024

We had no water to put out the flames, say victims of Durban shack fire

Pregnant woman dies as 200 shacks gutted

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News | 15 July 2024