Shocking state: President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address at City Hall in Cape Town, where he announced the electricity crisis as a national state of disaster. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg
But widespread, destructive flooding does qualify as a disaster
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