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District Six and Vredehoek residents say the influx of homeless people making fire on the mountain s slopes is a ticking time bomb.
A massive fire spread to UCT, where it destroyed several buildings, including the historical special collections library.
Law group Ndifuna Ukwazi is fed-up with the City s stance on the homeless and are gearing up for another legal challenge.
Homeless people living on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town are again in the spotlight amid allegations that Sunday s devastating wildfire was started by a homeless person.
The runaway fire started near Rhodes Memorial, but soon spread to the University of Cape Town, where it destroyed several buildings, including the historical special collections library.
Cape Town resident describes catching Table Mountain arson suspect in the act A Devil s Peak resident has described how he helped catch a man he saw starting fires on the mountain on Sunday evening. Firefighters leave an area where the flames become too aggressive, as a forest fire burns out of control on the foothills of Table Mountain, above the University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, on 18 April 2021. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP
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CAPE TOWN - A Devil s Peak resident has described how he helped catch a man he saw starting fires on the mountain on Sunday evening.
Devil s Peak resident explains traumatic ordeal confronting alleged fire-starter
20 April 2021 10:47 AM
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Yazeed Evans says he grabs his two German Shepherds and sprinted a kilometre up the mountain to stop more fires from being lit.
On yesterday s show, Alderman JP Smith told CapeTalk that one person was taken in by South African police after he was apprehended by a resident who saw a small group of men acting suspiciously on Sunday evening.
CapeTalk breakfast made contact with the man who gave chase and caught one of the men, before handing him over to security guards and then to law enforcement officials.