Disaster teams dispatched to OR Tambo Municipality due to heavy rains

The OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape has dispatched disaster teams in areas affected by heavy rainfall and adverse weather conditions. The weather has caused damage to electricity infrastructure in several areas. Executive Mayor Mesuli Ngqondwana says some of the roads are flooded. “Areas like Mqanduli town have been affected and access to the town has been closed areas like Ngeleni area like Port St Johns and around Qumbu and Tsolo are also severely affected and it has affected access to some communities. As we speak our disaster teams to identify those areas and pick up if there are any households whose livelihoods have become impossible.”