An estimated 2.6m Eastern Cape children live in a deadly environment shot through with live electrical cables, shack fires, burning candles and paraffin stoves during load-shedding and boiling kettles and pots going off in cramped, rickety spaces.Many suffer horrific burns and arrive at the Frere and Cecilia Makiwane hospitals’ paediatric surgery unit severely hurt, starving, confused and frightened
Tshwane's emergency services, working with other city departments and non-governmental organisations, are providing relief services for victims of fires in two informal settlements at the weekend.