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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]
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 ...
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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 ...
Efforts to contain the outbreak led to a significant decrease in new cases by June 2023. [9] 5 July – 2023 Boksburg gas leak – 17 people, including three children, died in a suspected gas leak in the Angelo informal settlement in Boksburg. According to emergency services, the leak appeared to be linked to illegal mining activities.
2023 Western Cape floods; S. 2023 South Africa floods This page was last edited on 27 April 2023, at 16:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Images from space show the hard-hit California towns of Pajaro and Porterville before and after flooding caused by recent storms. ... 2023 at 5:00 AM ... The levee — three miles upstream from ...