I only know of one instance of a white man falling a victim to a veld fire.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The unfortunate balala "the people who are dead" those miserable fugitives from savage justice, or, more often, remnants of clans scattered in war, often perished in veld conflagrations.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
veld fires were occasionally things to be reckoned with in the Low Country.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully