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The 2023 Western Cape floods were a devastating series of floods affecting the Western Cape province of South Africa as a result of heavy rainfall on 24-25 September 2023. [1] The flooding resulted in at least 11 fatalities, the closure of over 200 roads, and over 80,000 people being left without electricity.
The flooding caused collapsed bridges, limiting movement in the flood-hit Port St Johns area. [12] The cost of the damage was estimated to be around R4.5 billion in Eastern Cape [13] and R337 million in Mpumalanga. [14] [15]
One participating town is Chatham, which is set to host a public meeting at 6 p.m. on Feb. 28 to discuss two areas identified as being critically at-risk of flooding and storm inundation.
The authorities say at least 11 people have died as floodwaters submerge parts of the province.
Nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people, authorities and an aid organization said as the city ...
The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...
2023 Western Cape floods; E. 2022 Eastern Cape floods; L. Laingsburg Flood; Laingsburg, South Africa This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 04:01 (UTC). Text is ...
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