Heavy rains and winds battered the Western Cape on Sunday and Monday, forcing hundreds of families to flee their flooded homes. In Covid Village in Mfuleni, a man died, apparently electrocuted by a live wire in the water.
About 2 000 families fled their shacks in Mfuleni after a night of pouring rain, community leader Thembisa Thuba said. She said clothes and bedding had been washed away and electrical appliances drenched.Thuba said she and other community leaders were opening locked but uninhabited shacks to accommodate flood victims.
‘I noticed that the hood was heavy when I tried to pull it out of the water. As I continued to pull, I was shocked to see him come out of the water with his face down.’ She said the flood victims need blankets, food and clothes. ‘I have asked spaza shop owners to give the flood victims food because they are hungry,’ she said.
Yandisa Sono woke up when a community leader shouted to shack dwellers that water was moving into shacks at about 3am. Deneo Molekwa rushed out without even a change of clothes as the water flooded her shack. Picture: Vincent Lali
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