Monday, September 15, 2008

Shack fire summit to take place

By Sasha Forbes
15 September 2008


Along with the Anti-Eviction Campaign and the Joe Slovo Task Team, ABM WC will be attending the first ever City Wide Shack Fire Summit that is taking place on Monday 22 September 2008 to find new ways of preventing fires in our communities.

AMB WC Chairman Mzonke Poni says “the purpose of this summit is to find alternative which in terms of the fires that is attacking, particularly people who are living in informal settlements and the ABM is hosting the summit in order to discuss the issues that will come up that not only affect shack dwellers but also regular people that are living in Durban.”

The summit will also cover how this situation will be taken care of country wide.

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