'My ceiling is on my floor AG

Roads, bridges flooded, trees uprooted, roofs destroyed.

- Marizka Coetzer

Pretoria residents feared for their lives when a tornado swept through parts of Montana on Tuesday afternoon.

Vox Weather meteorologist Annette Botha said the South African Weather Service still needed to confirm whether the sighting in the north of Pretoria's suburbs of Doornpoort and Montana on Tuesday was a fully fledged tornado.

The extreme weather caused roads and bridges to flood, trees to be uprooted and roofs to be blown away, as well as multiple power cuts across the city.

Jada Motors employee Ayanda Phulangu described the storm as terrifying.

"The wind was very bad and I was very scared. It was the first time I saw something like that," he said.

Phulangu said he was inside a mobile office when the tornado uprooted a tree which lifted the office block with them inside.