Many people whose shacks burnt down at Blowy informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Cape Town on Sunday night gain still not been able to rebuild their homes.
A Khayelitsha mother says she has been sleeping outside in the icy with her three kids to secure the plot where she wants to erect her shack.
Andiswa Matiso and her family were among more than 500 people whose homes and belongings were burnt down at Blowy informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Sunday night. The flame claimed the lives of two people.
Matiso, said she does not believe money to rebuild her home yet, so she sleeps on the site where her shack once stood. “We snooze with our kids on our plots because we don’t want other residents to build their own shacks on them. We are hungry. We acquire no clothes. We want marvelous samaritans to aid us,” she said.
We are hungry. We acquire no clothes. We want marvelous samaritans to encourage us.
Another flame victim Ntaeleng Gejosengoe said they desperately need donations of essential toiletries, clothes and food.
“We want things such as pads, nappies and baby food. … Most of us can’t bathe and are still wearing the same clothes we wore on the day of the flame,” she said.
Gejosengoe said she and other flame victims want the City of Cape Town to de-densify Blowy.
A makeshift tent is being used to provide clothes and other essential goods to the flame victims. The City’s Disaster Risk Management Centre says organisations gain been providing humanitarian relief to flame victims.
SANCO leader Nkululeko Mantyi said they believe been relying on donations to feed most of the flame victims. “Those who live off government grants acquire no money to rebuild. They acquire no money to buy food and can’t secure their grants because their SASSA cards burnt,” he said.
When GroundUp visited Blowy on Thursday, some shack dwellers were rebuilding their shacks with burnt zinc sheets, but areas where most of the shacks stood before the flame occurred were vacant.
The City’s Disaster Risk Management Centre spokesperson, Charlotte Powell, confirmed that 532 shack dwellers were affected. “Some affected people are staying with friends or relatives, while others will be accommodated at the local church. Numerous NGOs gain been on site to assist with providing humanitarian relief, including Gift of the Givers, Heal our Land, Islamic Relief and Al Imdaad,” Powell said.
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