Two people die as fire rips through crowded backyard in Strand

Picture and Words: Phumeza Halonisi/GroundUp At least two people died and many were left homeless...

Loadshedding blamed for fire that wiped out family in Fisantekraal

Loadshedding has been blamed for the fire that killed an entire family early Monday...

Fire victims sleeping outside to protect their plots

A Khayelitsha mother says she has been sleeping outside in the cold with her...

Three people die in shack fire in Joe Slovo Park

Three people died in a shack fire that broke out in the densely populated...

Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack

The uncle of six-year-old Oyama Meje has described the moments he and other neighbours...

A fire in Khayelitsha claims two lives and displaces dozens

A fire ripped through the SST Section of Town Two, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in...

Three bodies, including two children, found after Cape Town shack fire

Three bodies, two of which are bodies of children were found following a shack...