This was a view echoed by Shafee Sidat, the mayor of the Marracuene municipality, as he visited Gwazamutini Secondary School on Saturday.
“We still have people to rescue, some of whom refuse to abandon the risk areas. That’s a challenge. We reckon that more than 10,000 people are affected in Marracuene as a whole,” he told me.
At least 642,122 people have been affected since 7 January by flooding – particularly in southern and central regions, with 12 deaths recorded so far, according to provisional data from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction.