Minister of Human Settlements, Mmamoloko Kubayi, says government has been hard at work to relocate the families affected by the devastating floods in the Western Cape this week.
Thousands of people in the province have been rendered homeless after flooding destroyed their homes.
"So currently those that were affected in terms of their buildings, formal structures, the assessment has been done by the . We have received the first report. We are hoping that by Monday, we would have that intervention as fixing those houses by our service providers that we have been able to appoint.Meanwhile, the Western Cape provincial government said it has given the green light for some households in Newton in the Drakenstein Municipality to return home.
"Working in consultation with the Department of Water and Sanitation and a dam engineering specialist, Drakenstein Municipality's Engineering Services Department performed another onsite inspection this morning of the farm dam above Newton and confirmed that the risk of dam wall failure has been mitigated.
"According to the authorities, the dam should be able to handle the flow of water that is expected to reach it today.
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