The heavy summer rains, which have caused damage to property, flooding, sinkholes and landslides across the country, have prompted the government to declare a national disaster.
The declaration requires government departments “to further strengthen support to existing structures to implement contingency arrangements and ensure that measures are put in place to enable the national executive to effectively deal with the effects of this disaster”.
“You can’t not panic, it was chaotic moving our stuff out and having to find other places to stay. I have been staying in this area for about two years now and I don’t remember being in a state of emergency. This was hectic.A house on the banks of the dam. The North West government has evacuated people living along the Bloemhof Dam and Vaal River banks.
“The situation is likely to get worse as the sluice gates of the Vaal and Bloemhof dams have been opened to reduce the amount of water and the dam is a tributary.” Muchenge said they could only take the most important things when they evacuated their home. “Clothes, food and personal care products are what we could manage.At the Bloemhof Golf Club, staff fear it will take a long time before they will be able to fully rejuvenate their lawns and get back to business.
“There’s no business. It’s going to be a lot of work to get the golf course to work again. We need it to dry and we don’t even know how the river will run going forward. It’s going to be a big expense getting it running again.”
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