Eight people, including four children, were fatally electrocuted in poor townships where residents precariously hook their own homes up to the grid.
“We’ve seen the impact of the flooding and the heavy rains causing disaster within our communities,” Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements Carl Pophaim
in a statement Tuesday. He said that during the covid-19 pandemic and related lockdowns, 186 new informal settlements were created — around 60 percent of which are “high risk” due to their location under power lines or in wetlands.Pophaim said that the city observed “a worrying trend” of growing informal settlements — even as the funds allocated to the problem dwindled.
The heavy rainfall this week — which prompted a high ‘Orange Level 9’ warning by the South African Weather Service — is another sign of climate change intensifying extreme weather events, local officials said.
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