15 January 2005
On this day the Joe Slovo informal settlement situated outside Cape Town was devastated by a shack fire. Seven people, including two children, were seriously injured, and thousands of houses destroyed leaving about 12 000 people homeless. For the first time, a helicopter was used in Cape Town to exterminate a shack fire.
References
Joe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town is devastated by a fire. The Star, 17 January 2005.|City of Cape Town FIRES AT ZONE 30, JOE SLOVO INFORMAL SETTLEMENT, LANGA [online] Available at: www.capetown.gov.za [Accessed on 3 December 2013]