Perde Eiland News Today

Gift of the Givers has distributed 1,500 food hampers to people around the town of Keimoes in the Northern Cape who have been affected by the lower Orange River floods. A helicopter brought in supplies to settlements that have been cut off.

The release of high volumes of water from the Vaal and Bloemhof dams in recent weeks has resulted in floods around the Orange River in the Northern Cape. People in riverside municipalities have become increasingly cut off as bridges and roads are submerged.