When residents of Khayelitsha were woken up by screams of "Fire!" on Saturday morning, many of them scrambled to salvage the little they had but were unable to do so.
The fire spread rapidly across the informal settlement with a strong wind fuelling its flames. Sindiswa Mdikidiki said she thought the fire was far from where her now non-existent home was.
"I tried to get everything. I threw my baby out like a dog [to get her out of the fumes and fire]. I couldn't get to everything," Mdikidiki said.
The City of Cape Town on Sunday that more than 300 homes were affected in the blaze, while 1,300 people were now homeless.
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