Heavy rainfall and flooding across the Western Cape have left hundreds displaced in the Breede Valley, triggering urgent rescue and relief efforts.
Hundreds of people have been displaced in the Breede Valley municipal area in the Boland due to severe storms that have lashed the Western Cape since the weekend.. Affected families are being accommodated in five municipal halls.. Helicopters are expected to be deployed this morning to assist those communities at Rawsonville and the surrounding areas who are cut off by the floodwaters.. Breede Valley Deputy Mayor, Juben Von Willingh, says teams are working closely with
disaster management officials and humanitarian organisations to assist residents affected by the severe weather conditions.. Video | Cape Storms | Over 2-thousand people affected: “So in terms of decisions taken in the JOC we have service providers who are giving three meals a day and then Gift of the Givers is also on board and the amount of people that I just mentioned that is the amount of people that are in our halls, but
outside this halls we still have people that still also need aid you see earlier we went to De Wet where we assisted people who only slept on their roofs last night.. So moving forward we in terms of aid, we need to provide daily food for our people so they can have food to eat.” Rescue teams will be conducting operations today to reach various communities in the Breede Valley area, in the Western
Cape, that have been hit hard by the recent storms in the province.#MorningLive #SABCNews — SABCNews_MorningLive (@MorningLiveSABC) May 14, 2026 Video | Western Cape Storms | Rescue operations underway as storms claim 10 lives
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