South Africa declared a national disaster after floods and snow killed more than 90 people and destroyed roads and bridges in four of the country’s nine provinces.

Adverse weather since June 9 caused damage to property and disrupted basic services in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, Elias Sithole, the head of the National Disaster Management Centre, said in an official notice.

Declaring a national disaster allows the government to free up funds for relief and reconstruction. It’s the second time the administration has implemented the measure in about seven months — when floods and storms in October affected seven provinces.

The government of the Eastern Cape will hold a day of mourning on Thursday after at least 92 people died in the flooding caused by record rainfall in the impoverished area.

Authorities and reliefs groups are providing assistance to 4 308 individuals who were left homeless across the province and processes are under way to provide temporary housing, the region’s government said in a statement on Wednesday.

This month’s floods are the latest in a series of adverse weather events to hit South Africa. Last year, Cape Town had record rainfall in July and tens of thousands of homes were damaged. In 2022, at least 459 people died when torrential rains hit two coastal provinces.