http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/05/03/cape-fire-wreaks-havoc

Cape fire wreaks havoc
03-May-2011 | Elvis Nyelenzi

ABOUT 6,000 residents of Cape Town were left homeless when a fire swept through their informal settlement on Sunday night destroying shacks

The residents of Masiphumelele, near Fish Hoek, said it was one of the worst fires they had ever experienced.

One person was burnt beyond recognition, while another sustained serious burns.

Community leader Mpilikhaya Nyumbana told Sowetan that half the shacks and houses in the area had been wiped out by the eight-hour blaze.

http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/01/05/no-joy-despite-food-parcels

Jan 5, 2011 | Michael Nkalane

"HOW can you only give food to someone who does not have a place to sleep? We will eat, then what follows after? I do not understand how our government thinks. Our government is stupid," said Luyanda Lekwe of Masiphumelele in Fish Hoek.

He was expressing his concern yesterday during a visit by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies where 166 shacks were gutted by fire on Sunday, leaving 500 families destitute.

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13 June 2009, 12:56

By Natasha Prince

There is no quick fix for the desperately poor housing conditions in overpopulated Masiphumelele, despite sporadic protests by evicted backyard dwellers demanding land.

The settlements' Pokelwa Street was plunged into disarray for much of yesterday as police fired rubber bullets at backyard dwellers who demonstrated against a mass eviction earlier this week.

Three people had been arrested for public violence by midday on Friday