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Winter storms in Cape Town have
displaced more than 2000 people, the city's disaster risk management centre
said on Sunday.
"Thunderstorms were present
across the Cape Peninsula last night [Saturday], resulting in gusting winds
causing widespread damage and destruction," said spokesman Wilfred
Solomons-Johannes.
He said 547 shacks were damaged and
2266 people were displaced by storms and flooding in Bishop Lavis, Hout Bay and
parts of Gugulethu, Strand and Khayelitsha.
In Philippi, a graveyard was
flooded. Elsewhere, the roofs of houses were blown off.
A number of mainly informal
settlements were flooded in Atlantis, Blackheath, Elsies River, Kalkfontein,
Langa, Lavender Hill, Lotus River, Milnerton, Parkwood.
Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille
called for "extraordinary emergency arrangements".
Solomons-Johannes said snow had
fallen on the western high ground of the Western Cape and the Southern high
ground of the Northern Cape overnight from Saturday into Sunday.
He advised farmers to take
precautionary measures to protect their livestock and crops during the freezing
weather.
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