Open Letter to Cape Town Mayor, Dan Plato

Dear Mayor Dan Plato, 
On Thursday, 17 December 2020, a devastating fire ravaged an informal settlement in Masiphumelele, destroying more than 1,000 homes and leaving more than 5,000 people displaced and destitute. 
This is not the first, second, third or even 10th time that a fire of this kind has devastated families in Masiphumelele and left them with nothing. A google search for Masiphumelele fire will provide endless results of news reports of such fires for every year to as far back as 2010, and there has surely been others before then. You were also Mayor for sometime between 2009 and 2011, and we are still here. In some of these years, there were two or more fires. Many lives have been lost as a result of these fires. This is just Masiphumelele we’re talking about. 

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