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Displaced Cape Town shack fire victims are longing for a place to call home. They’re pleading with city officials to relocate them.

The displaced victims of several Cape Town shack fires are pleading with city officials to relocate them.

Cape Town informal settlements have been ravaged by fires in recent weeks, including areas such as Masiphumelele, Dunoon, Philippi and Khayelitsha.

ANGUS Shaw, a distinguished Scottish journalist, always had rueful memories of his experience as a young reporter of the Cunard White Star liner,…

A BORDERS bike rider cranked out his first cycle book to critical acclaim with the initial printing selling out.

A PEEBLES bike rider cranked out his first cycle book to critical acclaim with the initial printing selling out.

More than a thousand residents from Dunoon, Masiphumelele and Phola Park have the daunting task of rebuilding their lives after fires ripped through their informal settlements at the weekend.

Shack dwellers in Phola Park informal settlement in Philippi outside Cape Town have had a rough start to the year as they struggle to recover from their second fire in four days.

A woman died in the blaze that broke out in Phola Park in Philippi on New Years Day. More than 240 shacks were razed to the ground, leaving some 760 people displaced.

“COMFY?” William McIlvanney would ask me. “Glasgow!” I’d respond. Our running joke. The Scots language as ritualistic greeting.