Actually the report found that self organised electricity connections radically reduce the incidence of fires.....Anyone who has lived in a shack knows this to be true. Amazing that the state exploits this tragedy to take forward its campaign to deny shack dwellers access electricity instead of to provide it!
http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=17453
Anger over family’s fire deaths
16 Dec 2008
Shirley Jones
Survivors of a blaze that killed a family of five at the KwaDukuza informal settlement late on Sunday night waited with community members and local government officials for hours yesterday to discuss the tragedy with Welfare MEC Meshack Radebe.
