eThekwini urged to release land to ease overcrowding
Shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo is calling on eThekwini Municipality to release land to ease overcrowding in informal settlements.
The group says congestion in these areas makes it easier for fires to spread rapidly from one shack to another.
Last Thursday, a blaze destroyed dozens of homes, and displaced over 200 people at the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban.
Abahlali’s Mqapheli Bonono, says reblocking – a process of reorganising shacks to create space and access – is urgently needed.
" These areas, the mostly are very congested areas where in the firefighters, any of the rescuing services cannot be able to enter very quickly insight and able to access people. These areas that been there for number of years."
Bonono says they have another plea to the city.
"Can we have some people that are well trained within the area so that when this disaster starts people can be able to respond on time so that we can be able to reduce the number of houses that get burned? Because if there's a fire you need to phone for somebody that will have to drive and come and put the fire off."
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