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Heavy flash floods in the Northern Cape resulted in the disintegration of the N14 road 42km outside Kuruman, causing an implosion of a culvert beneath the road.
Sanral spokesperson, Melany Kühn, says that recent rainfalls and flooded roadways resulted in the collapse of the culvert on the road towards Vryburg in the North West. Stop-and-go systems have been implemented to accommodate traffic, but the road remains in an unusable condition. She advises road users to find alternative routes. Kühn adds that engineers have been deployed to the site to inspect the damage.
Meanwhile, Afriforum spokesperson Gerhard Niewoudt said in a statement that the flow of stormwater had been obstructed causing a rapid build-up of water that had no drainage system to flow through. Niewoudt adds that this resulted in large streams of water building up in many households, thus flooding the homes of community memb