Flood destruction: KZN wants disaster declared as damage scales R1bn | kaveels
The cost of damage to various parts of KwaZulu-Natal following last week's heavy rains and localised flooding has run into billions of rand, Premier Willies Mchunu said on Monday.
A total of 1 469 people were displaced and they had to be housed temporarily in community halls or at the homes of their neighbours and relatives, he added. "Many families have been rendered homeless. In addition to displacement, many people's lives were interrupted by power outages, the majority of which have been attended to."Mchunu said the provincial executive had resolved to classify the province a disaster area,"because the province alone cannot cope with these incidents".
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