With her three-year-old child on her back, her 16- and 10-year-old children on either side, Margaret Ngobeni waded through the raging water.
With water levels rising drastically, Margaret Ngobeni only managed to grab two bags full of clothes and birth certificates and escaped with her three children as her Eerste Fabriek informal settlement home in Mamelodi was destroyed.
“The children were with me. I had one on my back. One took my handbag, the other had the bigger bag on their head and I also carried a bag on my head.” She is among hundreds of women and children who are currently being housed at the church after being displaced by the floods. “When I arrived, I found water all over the shacks. We lost everything; groceries, furniture and clothes, we only have the clothes that we’re wearing right now.”
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