Nomzamo
Blaze leaves over 140 homes, 300 people affected in Nomzamo
The blaze ripped through two areas in the informal settlement on Tuesday.
Fire and rescue services responded to a number of informal structures alight after midnight.
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) said schools were open, but some pupils appeared to have stayed away due to a protest on the N2 in the Somerset West area on Monday morning.
Further assessments need to be done at the Ikwezi Clinic which sustained R10 million in damage in last week's fire.
Preliminary investigations show it was started deliberately.
At least 120 residents were left homeless following a blaze in Leonsdale in the early hours of Sunday morning.
City of Cape Town officials say that 100 informal settlement housing structures have been razed to the ground.
Six structures have been destroyed by the fire and at least 16 people are without a home.
She disappeared on Saturday while playing near her home and on Sunday her body was found under a bridge in Nomzamo
Police say a postmortem will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
The blaze destroyed five shacks on Friday, leaving 18 people without a home. Among those killed in the fire were a man, a woman, and three children.
Two adults, two children and an infant have died after a fire broke out in the Nomzamo Informal Settlement in the early hours of Friday morning.
No injuries were reported following the fire in in Nomzamo, Strand, on Tuesday.
The incident comes after a 22-year-old man was murdered in the area at the weekend.
EWN investigates how the Nomzamo community is coping with temporary homes offered by Sanral after they were forcibly removed from the privately owned land in 2014.
Nomafrench Mbombo today officially opened the Nomzamo Community Day Centre.
A group of locals have forced the closure of Onverwacht Street in Strand for the last two days.
Residents earlier burnt tyres and rubble on Onverwacht Street in Strand.
Nine structures were gutted when a blaze broke out in Nomzamo yesterday.