Storm over, Cape begins to clean up

Weather conditions improved in Cape Town yesterday as the city began a massive clean-up and started to take stock of the damage caused by this week's storm.

Nearly 3,000 people were displaced in the Imizamo Yethu and Macassar Village informal settlements, where more than 800 structures were damaged or destroyed by floods and gales.

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"Areas across the metropole have experienced electricity outages, but 90% of the power has been restored," said Western Cape government spokesman James-Brent Styan.

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Environmental affairs MEC Anton Bredell said it was too soon to estimate the total monetary loss.

"We have priorities, we must save lives. We [also] save infrastructure and then we start with assessing," he said.