Authorities are monitoring water levels in towns along the Garden Route experiencing heavy rain after a severe weather system caused widespread destruction and the death of a security guard in the Western Cape.
Generators are being dispatched to several towns to keep essential services running after weekend storms caused power lines to collapse in the Central Karoo.
Residents were ordered to evacuate parts of Pringle Bay on Thursday as a wildfire that has burnt for days threatened to engulf homes in the Western Cape coastal village.
A mountain of rotten garbage nearly two storeys high has finally been cleared amid a service delivery crisis unfolding in one of the top holiday destinations on the Garden Route.
The trail of destruction unleashed across the Western and Eastern Cape by relentless rain, floods, storm surges and gale force winds in September has been declared a national disaster.