About 60 people were left homeless on Monday after heavy rains flooded their homes in Dunken village in East London, Eastern Cape disaster-management officials said.
”What made it worse was that there was a blocked pipe near the homes,” said disaster management’s Owen Becker.
”That pipe was full of rubbish. We spent the whole day draining it,” he said.
People were still evacuating their homes at 9.30pm on Monday — in pouring rain.
Becker said the evacuees would not be able to rebuild their homes while the area was still very wet.
”It has not stopped raining. People cannot start rebuilding now,” he said.
All those affected were being sheltered at the nearby Gompo Hall. — Sapa