(The candle may have caused the fire but the city's refusal, since 2001, to electrify shacks caused the candle and is therefore the real cause of this relentless plague of fires)

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An overturned candle is believed to have led to a fire that razed 200 shacks, leaving one person dead and hundreds more homeless in Mayville.

The fire, which claimed the life of 30-year-old Nkululeko Nquba, tore through the Quarry Road informal settlement in Mayville on Friday night.

Police spokesman Supt Vincent Mdunge said Nquba died from severe burn wounds and smoke inhalation. A case of arson is under investigation.