Western Cape Saw Severe Damaging Weather In 2024

Parts of the Western Cape were ravaged by severe weather conditions in 2024, resulting in damages to infrastructure, homes, commercial businesses and also the loss of life.

Gale force winds and heavy rainfall over the winter period caused severe flooding, prompting the declaration of a disaster for the province.

Thousands living in informal settlements in the Metro were displaced while the Riverlands community in Malmesbury bore the brunt of several dam walls bursting their banks.

A series of disruptive winds and rain lashed the province over the winter months. In April, a security guard died on a wine farm in Paarl after a tree, uprooted due to gale force winds, fell on his vehicle.

The Somerset Mall in Somerset West was closed due to blown-off roof sheeting. In Kayamandi in Stellenbosch, over a thousand people were left homeless when winds fanned a fire in the Zone O informal settlement.