Pretoria — The Department of Water and Sanitation has called on communities living near the Vaal Dam and the Bloemhof Dam in the North West, to move, to avoid possible flooding.
The department intends to open the sluice gates on both dams this afternoon. Sluice gates commonly control water levels and flow rates in rivers and canals.
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