If we are serious about growing the economy and creating jobs, we need to support these young people – even though they don't seem to expect any help or handouts, writes Melanie Verwoerd.
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At least 30 shacks have been ravaged in a blaze at the Bremmer informal settlement in Daspoort, Pretoria, leaving about 120 people homeless.
A building at the old MultiChoice offices in Randburg is on fire, Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS) has told News24.
Monday, April 15, 2019. When an alarm goes off in the early evening at Notre-Dame cathedral in central Paris, there is no immediate sense of panic.
Metrorail says two carriages that were part of a train travelling from Simon's Town to Cape Town, have caught alight. Watch.
A Mamelodi father died early on Tuesday morning trying to save his teenage son from the flames of their house, Ground Up reports.
The Gauteng government has vowed to help the more than 900 people displaced by a fire that destroyed more than 200 shacks in in the Pomona informal settlement in Kempton Park.
Two children aged two and three have died in a shack fire in Magau village outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo.
Around 900 people have been left homeless when a fire destroyed nearly 200 shacks in the Pomona informal settlement in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.
Thick black smoke billowed over the northern French town of Rouen after a spectacular fire broke out at a chemical factory, leading authorities to close schools and warn about possible pollution of the nearby Seine river.
Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has unveiled 10 new firefighting vehicles to be added to the City's Emergency Management Services' fleet.
Lebanon has turned to its neighbours for help battling forest fires that have ravaged homes and killed a volunteer firefighter in the Mediterranean country, its premier said on Tuesday.
Several houses have been damaged in a fire that started in the Magnolia Street area of the Drakenstein.
A baby boy died when a group of shacks caught fire in Khayelitsha on Thursday.
The Gauteng provincial government has stepped in to offer relief to victims of a blaze that hit an unused factory in Marlboro that housed 48 families.
About 900 people were left homeless after a fire razed nearly 200 shacks in Kempton Park. Now, residents of the Pomona informal settlement in Johannesburg are picking up the pieces.
While all of the City of Cape Town's fire stations have been operating with a full staff complement, it will have to "wait and see" if this remains the case after the SA Municipal Workers' Union warned that firefighters will no longer work overtime owing to a pay dispute.
One person has died in a shack fire at Happy Rest informal settlement in Nomzamo, Strand, Cape Town.
A fire has broken out in an informal settlement near Kempton Park.
Eight babies have been killed after a fire ripped through the maternity unit at a hospital in eastern Algeria before dawn, according to emergency services.
The Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) says it is prepared for the impending fire season in Cape Town but believes residents can do their bit to minimise the chances of a wildfire damaging or even destroying their homes.
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