Residents of the flood-ravaged Thekwane South in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, are picking up the pieces of their lives after losing everything when the Crocodile River burst its banks last week. FloodWarning WeatherForecast Read more:
A damaged house and walls after the floods at Thekwane South in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, 15 February 2023. Picture: Sibognumenzi Sibiya/ The Citizen
Residents of the flood-ravaged Thekwane South in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, are picking up the pieces of their lives after losing everything when the Crocodile River burst its banks last week.arrived in the area this week, Nhlanhla Mathenjwa, whose entire house was flooded, was busy salvaging his belongings, including his children’s clothes and kitchen utensils in the mud along the river.
The sheer force of the gushing floods also smashed all the windows of his house, forced the doors off their hinges and collapsed his neighbour’s perimeter wall into his yard. A damaged car and house following the floods at Thekwane South in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, on 15 February 2023. Picture: Sibognumenzi Sibiya/The Citizen
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