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Gift of the Givers
Gift of the Givers has distributed aid to around 800 families in areas surrounding Kuruman in the Northern Cape following heavy rainfall and flooding. Homes collapsed, roads were destroyed, bridges washed away and many animals died [as a result of the flooding], Gift of the Givers operations manager Ali Sablay said.
The area has not experienced flooding to this extent since 1974, Sablay added.
The organisation provided food parcels, hygiene packs and blankets to nine villages on Thursday, but the heavy rain made some roads impassable. Gift of the Givers was able to airlift the supplies after Nicky and Jonathan Oppenheimer provided a helicopter.