Fire safety workshops, proper housing and more power boxes. These are some of the suggestions residents of Masiphumelele in the Cape Peninsula have for reducing fire risks. This was after the second fire in a month tore through the area on Monday, 21 ...
Vatiswa Zwana, a resident of Z-section, toldshe was forced to flee her home without her possessions when the fire broke out. She is now staying at a friend’s residence.“You need [building] material to start with. We’ve got nothing. There’s no point in me asking for shoes and clothes — where am I going to live?” she said.
Residents of the community have provided support to fire victims by accommodating them in their homes and assisting with rebuilding. He added that the city had provided some fire safety training for local leaders in the past, but this training was not broadly accessible to members of the community. A further fire risk Mfiki identified in Masiphumelele was a shortage of power boxes, resulting in people overloading the few power boxes that were there with illegal connections.
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