The fire spread quickly to a nearby file storage container, damaging it and destroying the majority of the files believed to be the property of the municipality’s budget and treasury department. Some of the saved documents were badly…
Three shops, Pep, IP Hardware and Al Amini have lost everything to a fire that is alleged to have started around 23h00 after loadshedding at Boxer shopping complex, Komani. Al Amini store owner, Rahidul Islam said: “I have lost about R1.2…
A couple and their three children‚ aged between 3 and 11‚ have been found dead after a fire in a Methodist church mission house in the Eastern Cape. Brig Tembinkosi Kinana said detectives are investigating. A resident alerted officers to…
The Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) says the town hall is covered by insurance. The building was left in a state of ruin after a fire erupted in the early hours of Saturday morning. A statement issued by EMLM spokesperson Lonwabo…
The DA has strongly condemned the ‘ongoing neglect’ of municipal infrastructure in Komani after a fourth Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality building – the historic Town Hall – was gutted by a fire in the early hours of this morning. The…
The historical Komani Town Hall building which houses the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality council went up in flames in the early hours of this morning. Municipal officials, local residents and law enforcement officers were at the scene…
A devastated father’s attempt to rescue his three-year-old son went in vain after a fire engulfed their home in Nomgqokwana Street, Mlungisi at about 11am on Tuesday. It was reported that the father was sleeping in the same room where his…
In recent months Komani residents have been frustrated by the fire department’s tardy response to emergency calls. Residents have reported the truck arriving hours after being called and at times without bringing water. It seems unlikely…
Top Town residents are in a state of panic as a veld fire engulfs the Longhill mountain. It is still unclear what started the fire, however, Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality spokesperson Lonwabo Kowa reported that fire fighters were on…
Van Coller Primary School pupils were met by a blaze last week Monday when an administration block caught fire at their institution of learning which resulted in the little scholars being sent home. Principal Edward Valashiya, who arrived…
Government departments and the business fraternity have come together to assist a devastated family after a mother and her four children died in a blaze at their home in Ngcobo on Saturday. Read full story in The Rep today Pictures: SOURCED
After four years of desperately seeking intervention, a local company has stepped up to revamp a home in Ezibeleni after it was gutted by fire, claiming the life of one inhabitant. Nosakhele Vivian Nqabisa, who had reached out to The Rep…
Police have confirmed that a fire which burnt down a shack, claiming the lives of two men in Unifound, Mlungisi, was under investigation. The bodies of the friends, Luzuko Hiliza and Sandile Reni, who were last seen entering a shack…
CRISIS: A Nkwanca informal settlement resident lost his home of 12 years to a fire on Tuesday. Monde Kalipa has been staying in his shack for 12 years and says he was unsure how the blaze started. Neighbours had to be evacuated as others…
Firefighters have been working since Sunday morning to extinguish the runaway fire that has engulfed Rhodes Memorial and is spreading towards the University of Cape Town. SANParks Table Mountain National Park urged all hikers within the…
