28 April 2025
Some of the five burnt out vehicles at Silvermine. These photos were taken on Monday.
Earlier we published David Harrison’s photos taken on Sunday of the Silvermine fire. On Monday, Brenton Geach took photos of the aftermath, though the fire was still not entirely extinguished.
The Silvermine Dam sign lies in the fire’s ruins.
One of the cars gutted by the fire with a burnt out motorbike behind it.
The fire burns close to the Silvermine Naval Base below Ou Kaapse Weg.
The fire ripped through the mountains of Cape Town’s south peninsula.
The forested area at the Silvermine dam has been destroyed.
Firefighters put out small fires above Ou Kaapse Weg.