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Eskom has recovered almost all electricity supply that was disturbed by the fatal storm that wiped over the eastern Cape.

Three hundred thousand eskom customers were cut off, but 274,000 of them are reconnected.

The general manager of Eskom in the Cape Coastal Cluster, Mbulelo Yedwa says that their teams had to overcome a number of challenges to restore the electricity supply.

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Yedwa says they collaborate with local authorities and various stakeholders to support their recovery effort.

In the meantime, Professor Hangwelane Magidimisha-Chipungu, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Town and Regional Planner, says that the government must act carefully if they decide to relocate the families whose houses are damaged by floods in parts of the eastern cape.

Seventy -nine people have died so far and others who are displaced after the heavy rainfall that hit the province this week.

The government has warned the affected communities that endanger their lives by building their houses on river banks.

Most houses were immersed after the heavy rainfall that caused floods in Mthatha and Butterworth.

Magimisha-Tshipungu says that the authorities must consider a number of factors before a decision to move the affected residents is taken.

“But if we think that the area is at the point where we cannot resuscitate it. We cannot build on it. We cannot afford to build on that specific piece of land as a country. People must be moved. But we also have to think of a sound story strategy. Where do you not often go in the south? After economic activities of a species.