Several homes in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, have been flooded - affecting about 100 people - during the heavy rain and cold weather conditions since Wednesday, the city said on Friday.
“The city's disaster response teams assisted affected residents by providing warm meals, plastic sheets, and blankets on Wednesday night,” spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said in a statement.
“We will conduct damage assessments throughout the day to assist people in distress,” he said.
The Cape Peninsula was experiencing very cold weather with gale-force and gusting winds.
“There has been rough sea conditions along the Cape coastline, and heavy rains.
“Snowfalls on the high ground of the Western and Northern Cape resulted in temperatures dropping to below 10 degrees Celsius,” Solomons-Johannes said.
And in the Eastern Cape, the Port Elizabeth weather office's Hugh van Niekerk said the easterly parts of the city had received most of the significant rainfall with mainly Uitenhage and the Coega Industrial Development Zone affected.
“Disaster management officials were scouting various parts of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro to identify and relieve families in need,” he said. - Sapa
“The city's disaster response teams assisted affected residents by providing warm meals, plastic sheets, and blankets on Wednesday night,” spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said in a statement.
“We will conduct damage assessments throughout the day to assist people in distress,” he said.
The Cape Peninsula was experiencing very cold weather with gale-force and gusting winds.
“There has been rough sea conditions along the Cape coastline, and heavy rains.
“Snowfalls on the high ground of the Western and Northern Cape resulted in temperatures dropping to below 10 degrees Celsius,” Solomons-Johannes said.
And in the Eastern Cape, the Port Elizabeth weather office's Hugh van Niekerk said the easterly parts of the city had received most of the significant rainfall with mainly Uitenhage and the Coega Industrial Development Zone affected.
“Disaster management officials were scouting various parts of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro to identify and relieve families in need,” he said. - Sapa
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