{"id":64355,"date":"2025-02-28T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:41:05","slug":"oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods","title":{"rendered":"Oliphants Drift Deals with the Aftermath of Recent Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Residents of Oliphants Drift in Kgatleng District are still in anguish following the destructive force of this past week\u2019s torrential rains that almost submerged their village.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The destructive force was in the form of raging floods that spilled into their settlement from the confluence of Madikwe and Limpopo rivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go in there if I were you. One wrong step and the waters could pull you under!\u201d exclaimed one woman to BOPA upon entry into Oliphants Drift.<\/p>\n<p>To the residents of Oliphants Drift, last Wednesday turned into doomsday as floodwaters from the Limpopo River\u2014which begins as the Crocodile River in northeastern South Africa and joins Botswana\u2019s Madikwe River\u2014forced the local police department, clinic, and civil servants to temporarily evacuate both their offices and homes. The deserted police quarters, BOPA observed, remained an eerie scene, comparable to a ghost town even now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn event of this scale has never happened before in this quiet village,\u201d said Sub-Inspector Aron Kerebotswe of Oliphants Drift police, adding happily that his fellow staff members were able to escape well on time before the floodwaters reached a critical level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, work has stopped. Working conditions have been negatively affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are crammed together, shoulder to shoulder in our little new office,\u201d said Mr Kerebotswe.<\/p>\n<p>Residents living in mud huts also bore the brunt of the disaster as the huts collapsed leaving them with no option but to dwell in tents.<\/p>\n<p>The floodwaters have moderately receded, the effects are still visible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA proper village drainage system could have averted this devastating outcome. Poor drainage system is the issue,\u201d said a local police officer.<\/p>\n<p>During BOPA\u2019s visit to the area on Tuesday, the village was still covered with water and residents had been evacuated and housed in different areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Botswana<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Residents of Oliphants Drift in Kgatleng District are still in anguish following the destructive force of this past week\u2019s torrential rains that almost submerged their village. The destructive force was in the form of raging floods that spilled into their settlement from the confluence of Madikwe and Limpopo rivers. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-64355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oliphants Drift Deals with the Aftermath of Recent Floods - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents of Oliphants Drift in Kgatleng District are still in anguish following the destructive force of this past w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oliphants Drift Deals with the Aftermath of Recent Floods\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Residents of Oliphants Drift in Kgatleng District are still in anguish following the destructive force of this past w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-28T17:53:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-26T20:41:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2025\/02\/sm_1740753214.500518.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1134\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"756\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Oliphants Drift Deals with the Aftermath of Recent Floods\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T17:53:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-26T20:41:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods\"},\"wordCount\":320,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2025\/02\/sm_1740753214.500518.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/oliphants-drift-deals-with-the-aftermath-of-recent-floods\",\"name\":\"Oliphants Drift Deals with the Aftermath of Recent Floods - 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