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Clean-up operations are under way following a fire at the informal settlement in Kwa Mai Mai. Picture: @The_DHS/Twitter

Shack fire

'Heartbroken' Kwa Mai Mai residents ‘left with nothing’ after deadly blaze

By Dominic Majola

The residents spoke of their harrowing ordeal as they walked around what use to be their homes on Monday.

  • Picture: Mia Lindeque/Eyewitness News

    4 people, including 3 children die, in fire at Germiston informal settlement

    Ekurhuleni Emergency Services said the children, aged nine, seven, and two, as well as a 43-year-old woman, were burned beyond recognition.

    100 days ago
  • FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    Twin toddlers burn to death after candle sets home on fire in Boksburg

    The City of Ekhuruleni on Friday said when firefighters arrived at the scene on Thursday night the home was engulfed in flames and neighbours were trying to extinguish the blaze with buckets of water.

    103 days ago
  • Firefighters spray water on trees as they burn along Highway 395 during the Dixie Fire in the early morning of 17 August 2021 near Janesville, California. The wildfire in Northern California has grown to become the largest single wildfire in California state history. Picture: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP

    Fire reported at Joe Slovo Park informal settlement

    It is unclear yet what started the blaze and how many shacks and families have been affected.

    332 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    Mom says 10 hours after son died in fire, authorities yet to respond

    It’s believed the fire broke shortly after an explosion inside the shack at around 1 am at the Lion Park informal settlement near Lanseria.

    364 days ago
  • Picture: Mia Lindeque/EWN

    CoJ helps fire ravished Booysens informal settlement rebuild homes

    The densely populated area in the south of Johannesburg was razed to the ground on Friday.

    562 days ago
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    Fire rips through Dunoon informal settlement, destroys 8 homes

    One person has been taken to after he sustained severe burn wounds.

    633 days ago
  • Pexel.com

    4 people die in two separate shack fires in Khayelitsha, Dunoon

    The first fire broke out in the Qandu-Qandu informal settlement just off Japhta K. Masemola Drive in Khayelitsha.

    710 days ago
  • FILE: Firefighters have extinguished a home fire in Gugulethu were a little girl died. Picture: EWN

    2-year-old girl dies in Gugulethu home fire

    Two other children, a nine-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy escaped the blaze.

    714 days ago
  • FILE: The remains of a shack after a fire. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/EWN

    Mom allegedly takes own life after children killed in home fire

    It’s understood the children, aged between two and eight, were trapped inside the burning shelter after their mother left them alone.

    718 days ago
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    Joburg fire destroys 50 shacks

    Authorities said that at the moment there were no fatalities or injuries.

    768 days ago
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    Woman, daughter (3) die in shack fire in Bethelsdorp

    The blaze broke out on Monday night in the Danny Jordaan informal settlement in Bloemendal.

    770 days ago
  • A fire in the KwaMashu township, north of Durban on 15 June 2020. Picture: Supplied

    Hundreds left homeless after fire destroys dwellings in KwaMashu township

    One hundred informal dwellings have been destroyed in KwaMashu township, north of Durban.

    785 days ago
  • Picture: Mia Lindeque/EWN

    2 people hospitalised following shack fire in Alexandra

    Joburg emergency services said that 15 shacks had been affected by a blaze in Alexandra.

    786 days ago
  • FILE: The remains of an informal dwelling following a fire. Picture: Eyewitness News

    Two people die in fire that destroyed three homes in Vrygrond, CT

    The blaze broke out earlier on Saturday.

    801 days ago
  • More than 45 people have been left homeless following the fire as residents stay indoors during a nationwide lockdown. Picture: Edwin Ntshidi/EWN

    Alexandra residents affected by blaze rebuild their homes

    Twenty shacks were destroyed in Friday’s blaze at the organic market information settlement.

    843 days ago
  • FILE Picture: Lauren Issacs/EWN.

    Father and child (6) die in Germiston fire

    The exact circumstances leading to the incident are still unclear but authorities say the blaze broke out in the early hours of Monday morning and affected several dwellings.

    848 days ago
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    Mother, 3 children killed in Khayelitsha shack fire

    The cause of the blaze in the Endlovini informal settlement on Tuesday is unknown at this stage.

    888 days ago
  • FILE: A fire engine at the Strand fire station. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    Blaze leaves over 140 homes, 300 people affected in Nomzamo

    The blaze ripped through two areas in the informal settlement on Tuesday.

    937 days ago
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