Held back by the blaze
"By the time I got there, only one of my sisters was screaming softly: 'Help, help'. Less than two minutes later all I could hear was the fire crackling." Cheslin Bennett, 32, recalled the moments after he arrived at his mother's house, less than 30m from his own home in Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats, where two of his sisters and four nephews were killed in a fire."I could hear my sister screaming for help, but we couldn't get in," Bennett said."We kicked out the bars in the windows but the flames were too big for us to get in."Bennett's mother, Rose, 52, was admitted to Somerset Hospital in Cape Town with smoke inhalation and shock.The fire started after Bennett's sisters Florence , 25, and Gayle , 21, left a candle burning in the bedroom they shared with nephews Edwin, Dayln, Chadley and Chadwin...
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