Flooding in the Free State to cost nearly one-million-Rands

Lusanda Bill
5 April 2011

Recent heavy rains and flooding has cost the Free State nearly billion-Rands-worth of damage.

Provincial Cooperative Governance MEC, Mamiki Qabathe said damaged roads and bridges will cost the province some 516-million-Rands.

The damages to houses will amount to an estimated 314-million.

Farmers also lost crops valued at 95-million-Rands.