‘Kutshe kwaphela’: Scores homeless after fires at two Johannesburg informal settlements: Gauteng human settlements department says it has 1.1-million people registered for government subsidised houses.
“As long as we live in shacks we live in fear, because the shacks are not safe. We have had several fires, some which claimed people's lives. Last year there was a fire and a toddler died. In another fire, an old person burnt to death and the body could not even be taken home to be buried by the family,”Simelane said hundreds of residents hoped their way out of living in shacks was through a government housing subsidy.
“They have started moving people to a development in Riverside, those who have been living here [since] 1996. We hope for the government to also fast-track allocation of RDP houses for us because living in shacks is dangerous.”Ivo Fenioses lost his tuckshop stock when 18 shacks burnt to the ground at Thabo Mbeki Village informal settlement near Lion Park, Johannesburg. been living in her shack for 14 years. “I left without telling anyone.
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