MMC for Community Safety Karen Meyer said: “There’s a lot of things that need to happen before we can declare it a city-blown disaster. But this is a small disaster as far as this community is concerned, that’s for sure. I mean, we’re sitting with 1,000 people in the Mamelodi area that we had to move due to the floods.”

Residents of Eerste Fabriek informal settlement in Mamelodi are calling on the government to provide them with land so they can rebuild their lives after their shacks were swept away.

Hundreds of residents are now being housed at a community hall and in churches after losing their belongings in the deluge.

On Tuesday, Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and MEC Lebogang Maile visited areas affected by floods in Tshwane.

EWN