Mayor of the municipality Masango Manyike says more than 300 people are receiving assistance.
“Three hundred and twenty people were affected. We have identified all those victims. We have resolved that all the areas affected must be attended to. Our technical team, public works and other stakeholders have delegated all those teams to the different areas because where we are short of the plant, we have outsourced. We have hired some plants to go and assist.”
Manyike described the flooding in the municipality as the worst that the area has experienced in decades.Manyike added that relief organisations have also assisted. “Some of them didn’t sleep. The water was all over their houses and some of the mud houses were swept off, it’s quite a disaster. Others don’t have food, some are being accommodated by neighbours, some by family members because we didn’t have those temporary structures. Gift of the Givers has assisted with 325 food parcels and 150 mattresses.