Multiple roads were also affected, with authorities working to respond to disruptions caused by rising water levels and poor drainage.
Water and Sanitation MMC Zahid Badroodien said while the rain is welcome, it only lifted dam levels by 0.2 percent.
“This just reiterates that we can’t depend on unpredictable rainfall to fill our dams. So, while our rainfall is vital it also has to rain in the right place where our dams are in those catchments for dam levels to increase.”
City officials stress that Cape Town is not in a drought and is not heading for Day Zero.
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