Over 20 000 people receive assistance after storm

OVER 20000 flood victims in the Cape metropole received humanitarian aid yesterday following the heavy impact of the cold front.

- THEOLIN TEMBO

This, as the Western Cape Disaster Management Centre remained on high alert and the City’s Disaster Management Centre tended to several informal settlements.

The Disaster Management Centre said in the Vygieskraal informal settlement, around 500 structures were damaged, which affected 2000 residents.

Elsewhere around 200 structures in Haji Ebrahim Crescent were impacted, affecting 1000 persons, and 150 RDP homes, also in Vygieskraal, affected around 750 people.

By 1pm on Saturday, 112 structures were affected in Burundi, Mfuleni, which impacted 119 persons.

Other dwellings affected include 100 dwellings in Zola informal settlement and Oliver Tambo, 200 dwellings in Sweethome Farms, and approximately 200 dwellings each in The Ark, Khayelitsha and Island in Makhaza.