Areas that are expected to be affected include West Coast, Cape Winelands and Overberg and Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape province. Meanwhile in the Eastern Cape province, the seven people who died due to flooding at the weekend include a three-year-old.

The floods have displaced over 200 000 people across the Eastern Cape.

The three-year-old's devastated mother Phumela Brown recounted the circumstances that led to her child's death. "As we were crossing the street, I had my three-year-old on my back, and I was holding my nine-year-old with my hands. He was swept away, shouting, calling my name.

“As I was trying to save him (the nine-year old), the three-year old slipped off my back. The nine year old survived because he held on to a fence. Last thing I heard from her was when she was screaming that mama, we are falling," Brown said.

Meanwhile, officials from the Eastern Cape Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department in SA are assessing the extent of damage that floods have caused in the province. The officials along with the humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers are assisting the flood victims.

The department's Member of the Executive Council Zolile Williams visited one of the areas that has been hard hit. "We have not yet determined the total cost of this disaster.

“Our community is close to 2000 plus minus have been displaced from their normal homes. But this disaster has also targeted informal settlements and some of those communities have been placed in churches community halls and preschools," Williams said.

--ChannelAfrica--