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.
The Western Cape provincial government on Sunday announced the closure of schools in the Overberg, Cape Winelands and Helderberg (Somerset) areas on Monday.
Crime-fighting efforts across the province received a huge boost when Premier Alan Winde and the Provincial Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety, Reagen Allen, handed drones over to various district municipalities earlier this week.
Safe communities are directly related to socio-economic development and equality but children are exposed to high levels of violent crime, a Stats SA study has found.