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5000 homeless after shack fireCape Town wants to install streetlights and roads at Masiphumelele Township prior to letting residents rebuild shacks there.Water-bombs for shack fires?The City of Cape Town is working on plans to water-bomb shack fires in an attempt to rapidly extinguish them, but fire chiefs have reservations.Free houses – but no title deedsOnly 58% of the title deeds for houses built by the Cape Town council more than 10 years ago have been handed over the owners.