City of Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis asked city residents to take more responsibility and avoid the blockage of drains. The City believes residents had a part to play in the recent floods, especially in informal settlements.
“Residents also have a responsibility to help us. All of these toilet drains here are completely clogged with litter and so every one of us, it cannot be pleasant, it must be absolutely awful water to live with this in your house,” he said, as reported by EWN.
Heavy rains on Monday and Tuesday have left many Capetonians reeling. Relief efforts and mop-up operations continue to assist people who’ve been severely affected by the storms. Infrastructural damage has also been reported; a basement parking flooded at a Somerset West shopping mall, and commuters were stuck in unnatural congestion on the N2 after a part of the road collapsed.
However, Hill-Lewis firmly believes that the worst is behind us and that “everything would go back to normal soon”. City officials have been hard at work to assist communities affected by the floods.
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