{"id":2806,"date":"2022-04-19T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2022-04-19T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:59:44","slug":"south-african-military-deployed-to-flood-ravaged-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/2806\/south-african-military-deployed-to-flood-ravaged-province\/","title":{"rendered":"South African military deployed to flood-ravaged province"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides<\/a> and dozens more are missing.<\/p>\n

A week after the torrential rains began, the South African National Defence Force said it had been instructed to activate 10,000 troops for tasks including mop-up work and transporting aid.<\/p>\n

The military will also provide medical support and helicopters for rescue and reconnaissance missions.<\/p>\n

The floods have left thousands homeless, knocked out power and water services, and disrupted operations at one of Africa’s busiest ports, Durban.<\/p>\n

President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a televised speech that his cabinet had declared a national state of disaster because of the floods and extreme weather in several other provinces, which would allow for a more effective response to the crisis.<\/p>\n

He said the Finance Minister would approach parliament about additional spending, beyond the 1 billion rand ($93 million) he had\u00a0said was immediately available.<\/p>\n

Outside the town of Umbumbulu about 45 kilometres\u00a0south-west of Durban, herdsman Mbukeni Khwela accompanied police officers and sniffer dogs to scour a river for a missing neighbour who had been swept away.<\/p>\n

“We have found her son, but we haven’t found her,” the 59-year-old said.<\/p>\n

Mr Ramaphosa said the latest death toll from the floods stood at 443, with 48 people still unaccounted\u00a0for.<\/p>\n

Police said they were mourning two officers and a sniffer dog who had been killed in the floods, among the worst to affect the east coast province in recorded history.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides and dozens more are missing. A week after the torrential rains began, the South African National Defence Force said it had been instructed to activate 10,000 troops for tasks including mop-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Reuters","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[1143,122,1142],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-southern-africa","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-south-africa","tag-south-africa-flooding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}