Adiel Ismail | Mountview The response to the recent mountain fires that led to UCT’s Sport Centre, Smuts and Fuller Halls, and the Jagger Library being gutted raises a couple of questions.
Why did the government, either the Western Cape or the national government. fail to come to the rescue of the 4 000 UCT students who were left “homeless” by the fire? Why was it left to the disaster response and non-governmental organisation, Gift of the Givers, to come to their aid?
We, as law-abiding and working citizens, pay our taxes diligently and would expect the provincial or the national government to assist us, its citizens, in the case of any disaster.
Undeniably, the mountain fire that started on Sunday, April 18, 2021, was a disaster…