Deadly Fire Sweeps Through SWAPO Informal Settlement: Mother, Child Burnt To Death

Woman Dies as Fire Destroys 20 Pietermaritzburg Shacks, Government Rules Out Housing Aid for Foreign Nationals

A woman has died and dozens of residents have been affected after a devastating fire swept through an informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, destroying 20 shacks. The blaze broke out at the Swapo informal settlement in Copsville on Saturday, prompting an emergency response from Msunduzi municipality. KwaZulu-Natal Transport and Human Settlements MEC Siboniso Duma later […]

Fire destroys housing in the SWAPO Informal Settlements, in Copesville

Inkosi Mhlabunzima Maphumulo House: At 3:30am we were contacted by the community leader, a distressed community members alerting us about the death of a female resident following a fire that destroyed 13 to 14 shacks in Swapo Informal Settlements, Copesville – Pietermaritzburg. The death of a female comes at the back of a national outrage […] The post Fire destroys housing in the SWAPO Informal Settlements, in Copesville first appeared on Road S…

Deadly Fire Sweeps Through SWAPO Informal Settlement: Mother, Child Burnt To Death

Pietermaritzburg – A woman and her child have died in a fire that swept through SWAPO Informal Settlements in Copesville, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The KZN Transport and Human Settlements MEC, Siboniso Duma, said Saturday, 19 September 2026, that a community leader alerted him at about 03.30 this morning to the deadly fire. “We were contacted by […]