
Shack dwellers in Khayelitsha endure another winter flood
Severe winter flooding has left families in Cape Town’s informal settlements cold, homeless, and desperate.
Severe winter flooding has left families in Cape Town’s informal settlements cold, homeless, and desperate.
Residents of informal settlements have been the hardest hit by the heavy downpours, cold, and gusty winds that have engulfed parts of the Western Cape Province for the past two weeks.
The South African Weather Services has issued a level 8 warning for the Western Cape.
Photos of Monwabisi Park in Khayelitsha and Covid Village in Mfuleni show the miserable conditions of their residents as storms lash the Western Cape.
A sewage spill has turned a preschool into a health hazard.