Over 300 people have been left homeless after a number of shack fires in the Cape Peninsula overnight. Cape Town fire and rescue services say a fire which broke out in Site C, Khayelitsha in the early hours of this morning, destroyed about 50 wood and iron structures leaving roughly 160 people homeless.

A fire in the KTC informal settlement left 70 people displaced, while a further 15 shacks burnt down in Phillipi. No injuries have been reported. Yesterday, it was reported that the number of people left destitute by the fire that broke out in Philippi on the Cape Flats has doubled to 400.