Informal settlement dwellers lose sleep when it rains
Residents plead with municipality to install stormwater drainage systems
“Every time the rain is about to start, I pray that no fatalities occur as we’re always expecting flooding.”
These are the words of Lionel Melene, 54, a resident of the Dubai informal settlement in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, who says they have been experiencing floods for years in the area...
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