Earlier this week, the boys were playing along the N2 highway when tragedy struck.
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has been criticised for an outburst during a visit to the Taiwan informal settlement in Khayelitsha this week.
After a video went viral of the altercation between the minister and housing activist Nkosikhona Swartbooi of the Social Justice Coalition, she released a statement.
Three-hundred-and-fifty homes were gutted, leaving more than 1,000 residents homeless after the fire on New Year's Day.
The latest assessment shows about 350 structures were destroyed leaving more than 1,000 residents homeless.
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has proposed a new housing plan that could ensure residents have proper housing.
A massive fire on Thursday destroyed over 1,000 structures in the Cape Town informal settlement, leaving over 6,000 people homeless.
Over 1,000 homes were razed in the blaze and about 6,000 people lost everything in last week’s fire.
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said that law enforcement officials should act against those who illegally occupied private property and remove them so that invasions did not spread to other municipalities.
How do we explain the dire state of water and sanitation infrastructure and the seeming inability of municipalities to maintain them?
The Human Settlements Department’s spokesperson Yonela Diko said that authorities needed to be aware of what they could and could not do in the event of land invasions.
"People don’t trust the City of Cape Town," says Yonela Diko, spokesman for Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. "People are burning things."
Mandela's outspoken nature put her on a collision course with Dirco when she tweeted her views about land expropriation.
"She was a very angry young woman; and she was a voice of young people, clear about everybody’s role in the struggle."
Lindiwe Sisulu has told the NCOP that as much as illegal occupation would not be tolerated, evictions were equally not allowed during lockdown.
The department on Wednesday said Thami ka Plaatjie and two former officials were being investigated after an audio discussing their plans to take the money for their personal enrichment surfaced.
DA MP Emma Powell questioned Susan Shabangu’s credentials as a water expert, prompting an angry response from Lindiwe Sisulu.
The Auditor-General found that over R6 billion was lost due to irregular expenditure by officials in various departments.
