Lavender Hill residents plead for assistance following fire

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

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 the publication.

-eNCA

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Mzansi writer, lyricist, composer, director, choreographer, and theatre producer, Mbongeni Ngema’s ex-wife Leleti Khumalo has shared a tribute to the late veteran playwright.

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