WATCH: Ramaphosa lays wreath for Chatsworth victims
President Cyril Ramaphosa has laid a wreath atop the rubble of a collapsed home in Chatsworth, where eight people died. The house on the Westcliff Secondary School property caved in on Monday night.
Ramaphosa has today been visiting affected families in Durban and surveying some of the areas hardest hit.
President #CyrilRamaphosa has laid a wreath atop the rubble of a collapsed home in Westcliff, #Chatsworth where eight people died. Video - @nushera #KZNFloods #DurbanFloods #KZNstorm pic.twitter.com/Bxt4v0hQo1
— ECR_Newswatch (@ECR_Newswatch) April 24, 2019
The president says he is sorry to those who lost loved ones and their homes during the heavy rain and extreme flooding over the Easter Weekend.
He also made a stop on Rockview Road, where a home collapsed into a massive sink hole, sweeping vehicles and damaging both lanes of the roadway.
He says they will be assisting those who have been affected.
"I immediately contacted our Treasury and said - do we have money to assist our people. They said - President, we do have the money. So money is going to be mobilised to assist our people. These are emergency situations we budget for. Resources will be mobilised in the biggest way so that our people who are currently in need are assisted."
President Cyril Ramaphosa extends his condolences to the family of the victims in the Westcliff structure collapse, in Chatsworth, Durban. Video - @nushera @ecr9495 #KZNFloods #DurbanFloods #KZNstorm pic.twitter.com/uoLQU7LOwX
— ECR_Newswatch (@ECR_Newswatch) April 24, 2019
The death toll in the province's devastating storms is currently placed at 51.