Mop-up operations have started in Tsitsikamma as firefighting teams have managed to extinguish the fires raging in the region since Sunday evening.

Koomansbos, at Witelsbos, and Coldstream, at Lottering — the two locations around Storms River where the blaze had destroyed 3,600ha of plantations and natural vegetation, are still being monitored closely to ensure the blaze does not reignite...