As residents of Kei Mouth and Morgan Bay (Gxarha) continued to pick up the pieces after last week’s devastating storm, it emerged there was plenty of damage further inland as well. The Amathole District Municipality (ADM) has appealed to the human settlements department for help with more than 200 families who were left homeless.
For many South Africans, 2023 has been a challenging year with load-shedding almost every day, water outages, political turmoil, a failing currency and high crime.
The aid group said it responded to 14 incidents of informal settlement fires within the Cape metro in the past three weeks, but it has been difficult to penetrate government processes to get funds, particularly over the festive season.