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HELP BURY MY SON! Comments Vusumzi Lumkwana, Bulelwa Mili and Sindile Cekiso stand in the rubble of Bulelwa’s shack in Isiqalo squatter camp. Photo by Lulekwa Mbadamane. BULELWA Mili needs help to bury her three-year-old boy. Her son Alunamda died in a shack fire in Isiqalo squatter camp in Samora Machel, Cape Town. On Friday, 30 April, Bulelwa had left home at about 4am to look for second-hand clothes to sell. The 31-year-old mum said she left the boy with her boyfriend, who took off an hour later and forgot to put out a candle. She returned home to find her sh...

Shack fire claims life of three-year-old Mother asks for help to bury her son. A three-year-old died in a shack fire in Cape Town near Mitchells Plain on Friday. Tragedy struck in Siqalo informal settlement near Mitchells Plain, Cape Town on Friday. Bulelwa Mili lost her three-year-old son when her shack burnt down. Mili was away at the time. Every Friday she leaves her house at 4:30am to go to Westgate to collect clothes and food donated by residents, which she then sells to support her children. “When I came back my child’s lifeless body was lying there covered with a silver paper. Tha...

PICS: BOY (3) DIES IN SHACK FIRE! MISHECK MAKORA Shack fire in Isiqalo squatter camp killed a toddler on Friday. Photo by Lulekwa Mbadamane. RESIDENTS from Isiqalo near Mitchel’s Plain in Western Cape are left shocked after a three-year-old boy burnt to death in a shack fire on Friday morning. The mother of the deceased Bulelwa Mili(31) said she left his son Alunamda Mili (3) with a relative after she left home around 4 am to West Gate mall to collect some clothes. She received the shock of her life when she returned home around 9 am only to dis...