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Imizamo Yethu — When she woke up to her neighbours’ shouts outside, Lundy’s three-year-old toddler was already choking on the smoke that had seeped into their shack in the Imizamo Yethu settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town.
“I just took my baby and ran away,” said Lundy, who declined to give her full name, recalling the 2017 fire — one of the worst to hit the city, dubbed the country’s “fire capital” — which left her and about 15,000 others homeless.