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The New Age reports that trade union federation Cosatu on Tuesday blamed Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille for the deadly Hout Bay Fire.
“The extent of the damages that happened during the Hout Bay fire could have been avoided if the Cape Town City leaders had applied due care and diligence to the situation. The leaders could have timeously intervened to ensure that overcrowding was minimised in order to be able to provide emergency services,” Cosatu said in a statement. According to the federation, the City has not done this because it claims to not have money, yet it spent millions of rands on bicycle races for the wealthy.’ Cosatu also claimed that the City took firefighting staff off duty because it wanted to have more emergency personnel to look after the cyclists. Cosatu said it was calling on the Human Rights Commission to investigate the City for allowing the crisis to happen, by not providing proper housing and by not deploying finances to urgent areas.
- Read this report by Mandisa Magwaza in full at The New Age
- Read Cosatu’s press statement in this regard at Cosatu Today
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