The Helderberg was on the receiving end of a wind lashing over the weekend, which culminated in a downpour, leaving hundreds of residents counting the damage, with some severely impacted families left homeless and roads throughout the basin scattered with debris.
A total of 69 suspects were arrested in Lwandle following a night of pandemonium that resulted in the looting of Big Daddy’s Liquor warehouse along Hlathi Drive and setting fire to a refuse station at the Somerset Crossing Shopping Centre.