WATCH | Joburg blaze sees hundreds homeless and hopeless

JOHANNESBURG - Johannesburg emergency services plans to temporarily shelter families who lost their homes in the Booysens informal settlement fire.

The blaze erupted in the Johannesburg CBD on Monday and destroyed around 100 shacks, leaving many families destitute.

Robert Mulaudzi says firefighters successfully contained the blaze, preventing it from spreading further.

“We will have to activate our disaster management officials.  You can see that there's a lot of people who have been left displaced.  We have to make sure that, you know, we can be able to see whether we can be able to organize some temporary shelter for them from our disaster management officials.

“They will be the ones who will make sure that they organize that and ensure that they can be able to organize maybe some, you know, food parcels and so on.”