A number of flood-devastated areas in the country will be declared disaster areas, Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka said on Friday.
Heavy rain has damaged houses and caused death throughout the country, with shacks in low-lying areas the most vulnerable, and more is on its way.
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/ 13 January 2011
Flooding in Sri Lanka has forced more than a million people out of their homes, the government said on Thursday.
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/ 12 January 2011
Early estimates indicate 32 people died and nine were injured in the recent floods in Kwazulu-Natal and Guateng.
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/ 11 January 2011
The flooding of the Vaal River has caused considerable crop damages along its banks in three provinces.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Benin have been affected by the country’s worst flooding in nearly half a century.
Landslides swept away dozens of houses near Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night, worsening a disaster caused by heavy rains around Brazil’s second city.
Rescue workers struggled on Tuesday to deliver rations to about five million victims of flooding triggered by torrential rains in southern India.
Aid agencies warned on Friday that devastating floods that have hit 220 000 people in Angola could cause food shortages.
Southern African countries have been hit by the worst floods in years, killing more than 100 people and displacing thousands.
More than 200 000 people in Namibia have been affected by flooding near the northern border with Angola since January, the UN said on Friday.
Flooding in Angola has left at least 20 000 people homeless and the region is now at risk of a cholera outbreak, aid agencies said on Friday.
Government should not be blamed for the problems which may have led to flooding in Soweto, ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema said on Tuesday.
Mantombi Msibi (67) of Meadowlands and her family of nine were among the victims of last week’s floods that devastated parts of Soweto.
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/ 27 February 2009
Parts of Soweto have been declared disaster areas after flash floods hit the township overnight, the Gauteng provincial government said on Friday.
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/ 27 February 2009
About 200 families were left homeless, two people were dead, and three others missing, after heavy rains and floods ravaged Soweto.
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/ 27 February 2009
Two girls, six and 15, died in floods in Soweto on Thursday, Johannesburg emergency services said.
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/ 4 February 2009
Shacks were flooded and some roads and border posts in Gauteng and Limpopo were closed on Wednesday due to heavy rain.
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/ 30 January 2009
Informal settlements in Alexandra have been put on evacuation alert due to possible flooding, said Jo’burg emergency services on Friday.
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/ 14 January 2009
Floods in Mozambique have claimed at least 25 lives since December, officials said in reports on Wednesday.
At least 10 people have been killed in the heavy rains battering Mozambique since December, the daily paper Noticias reported on Tuesday