Cape fires | Lavender Hill residents plead for assistance

CAPE TOWN - Lavender Hill informal settlement residents are pleading for help from various sectors after they lost all their possessions in a fire.

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On Christmas eve, a blaze ripped through most of the shacks and razed them to the ground.
Hundreds of people have been left homeless and destitute.

Howard Soetwater, a Lavender Hill Community activist spoke with eNCA.