During Fire Prevention Week (4–10 October) the focus is, among others, on reducing the risk of fires in informal settlements. In opinion pieces for Cape Times and The Conversation respectively, Patricia Zweig and Dr Robyn Pharoah from the Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction (RADAR) highlight some of the ways in which this can be achieved. Click on the links below to read the articles.

• Patricia Zweig (Cape Times)
• Robyn Pharoah (The Conversation)