A family of four from Okahandja Park informal settlement has been living in a small tent after their shack burnt down a week ago. Their neighbour came to their rescue and lent them the tent. Peuyehafo Ndesheetelwa Shapange told New Era they could not salvage anything from the fire. “School uniforms, identity documents and everything else burnt inside,” said Shapange who is a self-employed hairdresser at Soweto Market in Katutura. Shapange also does plumbing and pipe fitting to augment her meagre earnings. She said her salon products and plumbing tools and equipment, including PVC water pipes and a wheelbarrow, were also destroyed. “I did not to go work these days. I don’t have clothes to wear. Our prepaid water card also burnt,” said Shapange.
Photo: Selma Ikela