âââ 15:30 Thu, 28 Jan 2021
About 15 houses have been flooded in Qwaqwa in the Eastern Free State in the early hours of Thursday, after heavy rain since the beginning of the week.
Residents have lost personal belongings such as furniture, identity documents, and more. The affected residents are mostly those who are staying nearby the rivers.
According to the executive mayor of the Maluti-A-Phofung Local Municipality, Masetjhaba Mosia-Lakaje, this is one of the toughest moments where the municipality has to intervene between the affected residents and people who authorised the residents to stay where there s no infrastructure.
She, however, said the municipality will not sit back while the lives of people are in danger. She says this is not the time of pointing fingers at each other.