A 50-year-old resident from Thandanani Informal Settlement in Welkom has pleaded with the Free State government to provide her with a better place to live.
Nnuku Mmile is among 500 people who have been displaced after their homes were flooded on Friday.
Mmile, who is an epileptic, lost all her belongings as well as her chronic medication and has not taken any medication since she arrived to find her shack flooded on Friday afternoon.