Hamba Kahle Mhlengi Khumalo - Ugesi, umhlaba, nezindlu ngabe kuyiphephisile impilo yakhe.

Last Friday 16 shacks burnt down in the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban. A one year old boy, Mhlengi Khumalo, was very badly burnt and died in King Edward Hospital on Saturday night. This was the third fire this month. The fire started when a candle was knocked over. Until 2001 pre-paid electricity meters were being installed in shacks. To get electricity you needed to pay R350 and to be able to represent your case in a certain way. According to S'bu Zikode from the Kennedy Road Development Committee "It all depended on who applied. If you seemed ignorant because you can't speak English you were just told to wait outside." The eThekwini Metro has since informed Kennedy Road residents that there is a 'new policy not to install electricity in informal settlements'. Their electrification policy openly states the following: