South Africa: Langa Residents Use Tyres and Zinc Sheets to Try and Prevent Flooding

Sylvia Nyawuza and her family did not get much sleep on Tuesday night as they lay awake listening to the wind threatening to tear the roof off their shack.

With the children at home for the day because schools were closed, and her husband out at work, she was busy the whole of Wednesday morning collecting water running through cracks in a makeshift roof onto her floor.

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