President Cyril Ramaphosa to visit Eastern Cape's wild coastal areas. The OR Tambo and Alfred Nzo regions have been the hardest hit.
President Cyril Ramaphosa this week declared the National State of Disaster in response to the widespread floods. He said the decision was made to ensure an effective response across all spheres of government. The mayor of Port St Johns, Nomvuzo Mlombile-Cingo says, “Port St Johns has been hard hit. For example, we are at the Nonyevu area, at the moment above Green Farm where three houses have collapsed, the first one collapsed, hit the second one and the second one hit the third house and they all went down the stream.”
“About 12 bridges that have been washed away, and also 6the roads, both the provincial and national and the access roads have been heavily damaged and also there are those learners that are unable to go to school because of the bridges that have been washed away. I think the condition in the Winnie Madikizela Mandela Municipality is very bad. As we have started to see the sun other houses are starting to collapse because you know that our houses are muddy houses,” says Daniswa Mafumbatha.