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Strong winds and heavy rain have left at least one person dead in South Africa's coastal Western Cape province, which includes Cape Town, officials reported Monday.

Heavy winds also fanned wildfires in the Glencairne area in Cape Town, where at least eight houses were gutted, according to a local representative. Storms and strong rainfalls battering the province Western Cape, which includes the countrys second-largest city have left at least one person dead.

Mop-up operations are underway in the Cape after parts of the province were lashed by violent storms overnight and during the day.

At least one person has died as storms with heavy rain and strong winds batter the South African coastal province of Western Cape, which includes Cape Town. The severe weather led to the closure of schools and highways mainly in the Cape Winelands, Overberg and West Coast regions where damage to houses, roads and public infrastructure was reported. Officials remain on high alert for more extreme weather on Monday. The South African Weather Services issued a high alert for the Western Cape area a...

Twenty-six Western Cape schools have so far reported weather-related damage as a major storm continues to ravage much of the province, the Western Cape government reported on Monday.

During the partys provincial manifesto launch on Saturday, Steenhuisen also questioned why smaller parties were campaigning in a well-run Western Cape, instead of focusing on the real enemy of progress, the ANC.

Briefing the media on Sunday, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said owing to the severe storms, it is better to err on the side of caution.

The Western Cape government is closing schools due to flood fears as several weather warnings remain. Here is more information.

The Western Cape provincial government on Sunday announced the closure of schools in the Overberg, Cape Winelands and Helderberg (Somerset) areas on Monday.

At the launch of the DAs provincial election manifesto in Paarl on Saturday, Alan Winde - who is the partys provincial candidate, told a packed Huguenot Community Hall that supporters must work hard to ensure the DA remains the majority party in the Western Cape.