🏠 Some families who lost their houses in KwaZulu-Natal to the deadly floods say they have never received any assistance from government. 😥 KZNfloods eThekwini Read more below 👇
The floods destroyed a two-bedroomed house she shared with her husband and three children. The family is now renting a room in the township for R1 500 a month. Gumede is unemployed and her husband does piece jobs.
“They asked me to take pictures and send them, which I did, but nothing happened. It’s been eight months now waiting,” she said.At Emantsheni Amhlophe, Nelson Makhathini said he had managed to only fix one room in his three-bedroomed house destroyed by floods last year. He is living alone in the room in the house and renting a flat bedroom for his children.
GroundUp also found that two families at Emaplasini are still living in their old RDP houses that were ruined by floods.She said she and two sisters and their children had been moved to a community hall in April following the floods, but had not been moved to flats when others who were in the hall were relocated.“On the day that people were moved from the community hall to flats we were in Pietermaritzburg for a funeral.
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