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Wildfires Continue to Devastate South Africa’s Western and Eastern Cape Provinces

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Cape Town, Jan 11 (IANS) Several wildfires continued to rage across South Africa’s Western and Eastern Cape provinces, with more than 100,000 hectares of land burned in the Western Cape and further evacuations underway, authorities said.Western Cape Premier Alan Winde told public broadcaster SABC on Saturday that fires were affecting the entire Western Cape Province as well as parts of the neighboring Eastern Cape, Xinhua news agency reported.No fatalities have been reported so far, although a y…