Residents are in a race against time to rebuild their lives before another cold front is expected to make landfall in the coming days.
CAPE TOWN - Over 2,000 flood victims in Khayelitsha received building material on Wednesday after their homes were destroyed in the recent storms.On Wednesday, many hope to receive starter kits to start rebuilding their dwellings.
Long queues formed outside Luleka Primary School in Harare, where recent disaster victims wait to receive kits to begin rebuilding their homes.The Councillor of Ward 99 Lonwabo Mqina says only three hundred people will be able to get building material today, and that Yesterday they distributed material to 150 victims of floods.
Mqina also said that the City of Cape Town had identified land that government could buy to relocate informal settlements from low-lying wetlands.He said that there were talks between the metro and national government to find a lasting solution. "So there are ongoing discussions and we, as well as community leaders, are identifying like open spaces here within the ward, so we that we can be able to relocate people within the community to an area that is high up, so that they don’t experience these floods when they happen again."
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