A wheelchair-bound woman burned to death in her Wendy House home in Delft on Monday afternoon, said Western Cape police.

Captain Joe Wilson said patrolling police investigating billowing smoke found the hut on fire in the yard of a house in Leiden at 1.15pm.

People were frantically trying to put out the blaze, which also burnt down the house, he said.

It was after emergency services had extinguished the flames that the charred remains of double leg amputee Carol Poggenpoel, 40, were found inside the hut. She was alone at the time of the fire.

Wilson said the cause of the blaze was not known. Foul play was not suspected. - Sapa