South Africa: Khayelitsha Shack Fire Victims in Relief Limbo

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The City of Cape Town says it has no budget for relief efforts after a New Year's Day blaze in Khayelitsha's Taiwan shack settlement left about 500 people homeless.

While South Africans were sleeping off whatever New Year celebrations they could manage, the residents of Taiwan shack settlement in Site C, Khayelitsha, were extinguishing a fire that gutted more than 140 shacks, leaving about 500 people homeless.

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