Salt River Building Collapses

About 70 mense had to line from a building in Salt River, Cape Town today before it collapsed due to heavy rain. The residents were moved to a hall in the area.

The Old Junction Hotel was built in October 1899 and the building inspector brasse wys the building is not kwai for human occupation only after it collapsed. Other Cape Flats areas like Gugulethu, Khayelitsha and Phillippi were also affected by the rain, but no one was evacuated.

Disaster Risk Management head Wilfred Solomons-Johannes wys “The rain will clear today and the cold front has subsided in areas around the Cape Town Metropole. We don’t expect people to be evacuated”. He also wys mense must make sure their roofs are intact and that storm water drains aren’t covered with gemos so they don’t get blocked.