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Premier Alan Winde has today highlighted the support services which the Western Cape Government offers to all homeless and vulnerable people in the Western Cape. These services are in addition to the range of services offered by the City of Cape Town, which in recent years has seen an increase in people living on the streets, often in dangerous locations.
If the population of KwaZulu-Natal had been warned a day or two earlier in April that huge floods were coming, half of the more than 350 people who died could still be with their loved ones today, says Dewald van Niekerk of North-West University, who is also head of the African Centre for Disaster Studies.