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To date, about 16,000 people have been impacted, with around 7,100 informal structures affected.
Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality has confirmed that a group 72 of learners, as well as adults, who were trapped at Cango Mountain Resort due to heavy rains have finally been rescued.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been requested to allow engineers and experts from South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to assist on the roads after a storm battered Cape regions at the long weekend.
The repairs caused by the storm that battered the Cape regions, specifically Western and Eastern Cape will cost billions and South Africa will need ongoing investment in infrastructure.
Eagle-eyed social media users said a video being circulated was not shot in South Africa, and definitely wasn’t shot during the Cape Storm.
Table Mountain National Park Ranger teams conducted flood assessments in response to the recent severe weather conditions experienced over the past two days in Cape Town.
The Greater Oudtshoorn Municipality disaster management has provided emergency helicopter aid to 72 Aliwal North Primary School students and 10 adults who are stranded at Cango Mountain Resort due to heavy rains.
The Cape provinces in South Africa was at this weekend hit by severe torrential rain and gale winds, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
This disaster highlights the devastating impact of climate change on extreme weather events, particularly cyclonic storms, and the urgent need for global climate action.
The seismic event was located by means of the CGS's automatic locator system through the South African National Seismograph Network, registering a preliminary local magnitude of approximately 2. 7.
Searchers were still pulling survivors Wednesday from the rubble of the earthquake that killed over 11,200 people in Türkiye and Syria, even as the window for rescues narrowed.
The head of Syria’s National Earthquake Centre, Raed Ahmed, told a pro-government radio station that it was ‘historically, the biggest earthquake recorded in the history of the centre’.
The combined death toll rose to more than 2,700 for Turkey and Syria on Monday after the region's strongest earthquake in nearly a century. Offers of assistance came from countries across the world.
Elia Atiyeh who lives in Syria’s capital Damascus, told IOL on Monday that he and his wife were abruptly awoken by the tremors at around 4. 15am.
The US Geological Survey says there’s a ‘very high probability’ that lava from the Mauna Loa eruption will reach main highway.
At least 14 people were killed and 17 injured after a 5. 6 magnitude quake hit Indonesia's West Java province on Monday, officials said.
More than 62 000 homes and businesses in Florida were without power on Friday after storm Nicole crashed into the state's east coast. Nicole continues to bring heavy rains and fierce winds that downed power lines, flooded homes and left at least two people dead in the state.