WATCH: Vaal residents reeling after floods wash away livelihoods

Residents in the Vaal area say this is the worst flood they have ever lived through.

JOHANNESBURG - Flooding in the Vaal has severely damaged houses located along smaller rivers in the region.

Arthur Jensen told Eyewitness News that all he and his wife Marlene were able to retrieve from their Lochvaal home was a handbag and a wallet.

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