As freezing weather conditions continue to spread across South Africa, emergency medical services are reporting an increasing number of shack fires. The uptick also includes burn injuries ...

Four fires a day are reported in informal ... Yolande Hendler, from the SA SDI Alliance (South African Alliance of Shack Dwellers international) and community organisations and support NGOs ...

A shack fire which killed five children at the beginning of June was described by President Cyril Ramaphosa as a tragedy that brings home the dangers faced by thousands of vulnerable South ...

While politicians predict that one of the worst settlement fires in Cape Town's history may signal the beginning of the end of shack life ... where thousands of South Africa's poorest people ...

Lumkani fire detectors measure the rate of rise of heat, rather than detect smoke. This means that when the temperature in a shack starts ... by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...

Two shack fires in the Cape Peninsula on Sunday have left about 80 people without homes, SABC reported. Cape Town Fire said more than 50 people were displaced when their shacks burnt down early on ...

Natal's latest news.Durban: Over 70 shack dwellers were saved from a massive fire that destroyed more than 40 shacks at the Kennedy Road informal settlement on Wednesday night. KwaZulu-Natal MEC for ...

Fire prevention measures in the Western Cape ... "There is a need for a paradigm shift. In a free South Africa people have the right to enjoy the freedom of movement." Mabandla added town planning ...

Johannesburg - The Gauteng government should do more to prevent shack fires in informal settlements, the DA said on Tuesday. "There should be spaces between shacks so that fires don't spread, and fire ...

Three people have died in a shack fire in Masiphumelele, Cape Town. The three were burnt beyond recognition. This brings the total of people who have died in Cape Town shack fire since the weekend to ...