Wintry weather with a vengeance has swept across most parts of South Africa this week. All except the central parts of the Northern Cape have been affected, as has the highland Kingdom of Lesotho.
Until now, the Western Cape had seen most of the rain this winter.
A spokesperson for Cape Town’s water and sanitation department, Farouk Robertson, said reservoirs were at 48 per cent.
“We still need a lot of good rain because we’d like to see our dams literally overflow at the end of the winter period,” Robertson said. “We are still at level 2 water restrictions and that still requires our residents to adhere to those restrictions.”
On Monday, torrential rain …
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