Severe flooding prompts urgent response from Gift of the Givers

GIFT OF the Givers (GoTG) teams extended their humanitarian aid distribution to over 20 000 flood victims in the Cape Metropole yesterday.

- THEOLIN TEMBO.

The organisation said they were receiving calls from communities across the Cape Metro area due to the heavy impact of the cold front, resulting in floods and rain that impacted thousands of residents.

The Western Cape Disaster Management Centre yesterday remained on high alert after the heavy storms have caused flooding in informal settlements. The City’s Disaster Management Centre (DRM) has also been tending to several informal settlements over the weekend.

On Saturday, they were assisting residents in Mfuleni, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha. The Vygieskraal canal had also burst its banks, which caused flooding on several roads in the Athlone/Belgravia area.

DRM said in the Vygieskraal Informal Settlement, approximately 500 structures were damaged, which affected 2000 residents.

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

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.