Residents are lining up under still-pouring rain behind vans that are distributing clothes and food from All Nations Ministries. Emergency officials say they are concerned about people who refuse to evacuate. Roads in this township and others are filled with water, and rivers continue to eat away the banks directly underneath shacks and homes. Across South African and Mozambique, roads are cut off and water levels are still rising. People are being advised to evacuate but not to cross rivers that may look less deep or swift than they really are.
Rain continues in most areas, and potable water is becoming more and more scarce.
Flooding has cut off a road linking Botswana to Zimbabwe and South Africa. Links between Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa are also impassable at this time. In Mozambique, four people died when a bus was swept away by raging floodwaters. Hundreds of traders and tourists were stranded when the major road between Mozambique and South Africa was cut off. Some 800 trucks are also stranded on the Botswana side of the border by high waters.