'It is bad': Survivors count costs of South Africa's devastating floods
The province was declared a disaster area on Wednesday after heavy rains over the weekend flooded homes, washed away roads and bridges and disrupted shipping in one of Africa's busiest ports, with shipping containers washed away and in some areas looted."It is bad, it is bad. We don't have anything. I don't even have a bed," Somi Malizole, a resident of Isiphingo informal settlement, told Reuters as he inspected his corrugated iron shack whose contents had washed away.
"We don't have water, we don't have electricity. It has been tough," said Thabisile Mathumbu, adding communities were not given advance warning of heavy rains. "We should have been warned." President Cyril Ramaphosa, who visited the province on Wednesday, described the disaster as "a catastrophe of enormous proportions", adding it was "obviously part of climate change".
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