The City of Johannesburg says plans to accommodate families displaced by flash floods in Soweto at the weekend are in place.
More than 300 residents were displaced in the Nancefield Hostel and the informal settlement next to the hostel after the torrential rains.
Gauteng human settlements and infrastructure development MEC Lebogang Maile and human settlements MMC Mlungisi Mabaso visited affected residents. The provincial human settlements department said a contractor has been appointed for the community hall that will accommodate affected residents. “The department will be working hand in hand with the city to outline further measures to be put in place,” it said. “There is a construction of the bridge and there is a dam that they have tampered with. That dam [water] started flowing towards the hostel, so they have to dig a trench to divert the water,” he said.
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