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Floods inflict record R9bn damage on Cape
Floods inflict record R9bn damage on Cape Recent flooding in South Africa's Western Cape province, which includes the tourist hub of Cape Town, caused more than R9-billion of damage, a total that's expected to rise once final assessments are completed. "Our infrastructure budget for this year is 10 billion rand and the cost of the storm damage means that the whole provincial budget will have to be re-prioritised," Deidré Baartman, the region's finance minister, told reporters in Cape Town on Thursday. Torrential rains that lashed the province last month inundated a number of informal…
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