City of Tshwane counts cost of flooding
(World News South Africa)

Pretoria - Tshwane is counting the heavy cost caused by downpours which have battered the capital in the past few days. Hundreds of people have been left homeless and infrastructure severely damaged. At Eerste Fabrieke informal settlement in Mamelodi, where an estimated 700 shacks were wiped out by flash floods on Monday, many residents were yesterday rebuilding their homes. Displaced residents had been accommodated in community halls and churches around Mamelodi. But along Tsamaya Road yesterday, residents were mopping up floors and repairing what they could of their shacks. Goitsemang Setlago, who has been living there for two years, said she was woken by a pungent smell from the river and...