DA KZN Leadership at the Greenwood Park Hall where they are visiting flood victims placed at this hall following the April floods to ascertain the living conditions and government intervention.DA KZN Leadership at the Greenwood Park Hall where they are visiting flood victims placed at this hall following the April floods to ascertain the living conditions and government intervention.
Over 3800 families have been living in 82 community halls since April’s floods. The families are largely from informal settlements that were badly hit by the floods. Mother of two, Nokuthula Mkhize lives in the community hall in Yellowwood Park and is among over 100 people still there. Mkhize says sometimes they sleep without food because the food parcels have dried up.
“We also don’t have any privacy. There are women, children, and men all living under one shelter. We don’t know where we stand in terms of getting proper houses. We are also getting sick because it is also extremely cold at night,” says Mkhize.The DA in the province has been conducting oversight visits to several community halls to check on the living conditions.