GROUNDUP: Cape Town fire leaves 190 people homeless as children approach school year from the ashes

A Khayelitsha mother says she is devastated after losing all her savings and belongings in a fire on Saturday morning. According to the City of Cape Town, 81 structures in Town Two were gutted, leaving 192 people homeless.that she grabbed her three-year-old daughter after hearing neighbours shouting that shacks were alight.

Dyantyi’s brothers were helping her rebuild her shack with the charred zinc sheets, burnt poles and nails so that she can have a place to sleep. “I used my grandchildren’s grant to buy them stationery two days ago. We have no clothes to wear now. My kids have to go to school, but they have no uniforms and stationery,” she said.

A woman with a young child stands among the charred remains after a fire destroyed 81 shacks on Saturday morning in Khayelitsha.

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