MEC for Human Settlements to visit families who lost homes in #AlexFire

ALEX – 20 families in the Organic Market Informal Settlement lost their homes to a blaze in the early hours of Friday morning.

April 18, 2020

Alex News Team Less than a minute

Castro Ntobeko Ngobese, spokesperson for the Gauteng MEC for Human Settlement Urban Planning and @GDCoGTA tweeted this photo and said, 'MEC @LebogangMaile1 will later today, Saturday 18 April, visit Organic Market Informal settlement at 13h30, after the fire burnt down some shacks. About 20 families were affected. Members of the media are hereby invited to attend report. #Alexandra #AlexFire.' Photo: @castrongobese

Gauteng MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and COGTA, Lebogang Maile, will today visit the 20 families affected by a fire that raged through the Organic Market Informal Settlement in Alex in the early hours of Friday morning.

The fire burnt down shacks in its path.

🚨: MEC @LebogangMaile1 will later today, Saturday 18 April, visit Organic Market Informal settlement at 13h30, after the fire burnt down some shacks. About 20 families were affected. Members of the media are hereby invited to attend report. #Alexandra #AlexFire pic.twitter.com/4v1HGtwQia

— Castro Ntobekó Ngobese (@castrongobese) April 18, 2020

Reports suggest that disaster management is already re-building the shacks that were burnt and families are being housed in nearby shelters for the time being.

The cause of the fire is unknown at this stage.

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