(21 Apr 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Inanda, South Africa - 21 April 2022
1. Various of partially demolished houses caused by flooding
2. Various of Sandile Cele, a 23-year-old Inanda resident, mopping the floor of his family home affected by floods
3. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Sandile Cele, 23, Inanda resident:
"My mother had just completed rebuilding our home with the money she received after our father's passing. I don't think she'll be able to rebuild the house in the standard she would've wanted."
4. Cele picking up rubbish
5. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Sandile Cele, 23, Inanda resident:
"My mother is deeply hurt by what has happened. Lately, she can't even sit down. She keeps walking around. She is trying to piece things together, but honestly she is deeply hurt by what has happened."
6. Wide of destruction caused by heavy floods
7. Woman walking to her house
8. Various of house destroyed by heavy floods
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Durban, South Africa - 21 April 2022
9. Wide of military helicopter preparing to lift off
10. Close on police rescue
11. Various of military helicopter lifting off and flying
12. Brigadier General Andries Mokoena Mahapa, spokesperson for the South African Defence Force, walking
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Andries Mokoena Mahapa, Brigadier General, spokesperson of the South African Defence Force:
"People are in a state of shock. We have never experienced a disaster like this here in South Africa, so people are still in a state of shock. They are looking at government to come to their aid. As an asset of the state, we are here to assist the people. More so, the National Defence Force is the defence force of the people. We are here bringing the defence force to the people so that we can perform our secondary role as in assisting the people of South Africa."
14. Wide of rescue team returning
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Andries Mokoena Mahapa, Brigadier General, spokesperson for the South African Defence Force:
"There are certain areas which are difficult to reach in terms of using a vehicle, but at least we are now happy that we've got air capability that can be in a position to transport us there. And so that we can do what is required to do."
16. Various of South Africa Police Service helicopter landing
STORYLINE:
Communities affected by the devastating floods that killed at least 448 people in the eastern city of Durban in South Africa are trying to salvage whatever is left of their belongings as search and rescue operations continue to find missing persons.
A visibly distraught Sandile Cele, 23, told The Associated Press on Thursday that his family watched from a neighbour's house as the roofs and walls of their two homes were ripped apart by floods caused by torrential rains last week.
"My mother had just completed rebuilding our home with the money she received after our father's passing."
"I don't think she'll be able to rebuild the house in the standard she would've wanted," Cele said.
Cele is among thousands of communities who had to flee to safety as the worst floods in recorded history ravaged large parts of KwaZulu-Natal state, destroying homes, buildings, roads, water and electricity infrastructure.
"We have never experienced a disaster like this here in South Africa, so people are still in a in a state of shock," Brigadier General Andries Mokoena Mahapa, spokesperson for the South African Defence Force said.
"They are looking at government to come to their aid. As an asset of the state, we are here to assist the people."
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