Residents evacuated as raging Table Mountain wildfire spreads in Cape Town

Clouds of smoke are seen above the city of Cape Town, South Africa (Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)

People have been evacuated from Cape Town neighbourhoods as a huge wildfire sweeping across the slopes of the city’s famed Table Mountain was fanned by high winds and threatened homes.

City authorities said the fire, which started early on Sunday, was still not under control and residents of suburbs on the mountain slopes were now being evacuated as a “precautionary” measure.