Shack Fire at Makause, Germiston, Gauteng: 15 October 2012

General Alfred Moyo speaks at the scene of Saturday's shack fire about the governments failure to supply adequate aid. A compact informal settlement in Primrose, Germiston (Gauteng, South Africa) Makause houses the poorest of the poor and unemployed, who have nowhere else to go. Their living conditions are desperate, but became more so when a woman poured petrol over herself and set her body aflame. The blaze raged through 18 dwellings, taking what little the people there had. Insult was added to injury by the way Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality responded to the disaster. Camerawork and editing by Jonathan H Pienaar: http://jonathanpienaar.wordpress.com/ For the full story see Daily Maverick: http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/20...