Runaway bush fires and wind in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province have killed 13 people, disaster officials said on Monday, at the same time the Western and Eastern Cape were hit by rain, floods and gale-force winds. Liz Diedericks, a spokeswoman for KwaZulu Natal's provincial disaster management, said the fires were fanned by hot, dry and windy conditions as the region remained on alert during its fire season. "Ten people died as a direct result of the runaway veld fires over the weekend," she said. Another two people, including a 6-year-old girl, were killed by corrugated iron that was blown off a roof, while an elderly man died when a marque tent collapsed on him, she said. The weekend's fires, which also raged in the north-eastern Mpumalanga province, killed livestock and affected tree plantations belonging to Sappi Ltd the world's No. 1 maker of fine paper used in glossy magazines, a spokesman confirmed. "We were impacted both in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal," Andre Oberholzer, a Sappi spokesman told Reuters, adding it was too early to tell the extent of the damage. The fires, many in the south eastern coastal area close to the port town Richards Bay, occurred as the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces were buffeted by rain and winds. In the tourist city Cape Town, high winds and torrential downpours flooded roads and caused power disruptions. Along the Western Cape coast close to Cape Town -- known as the "Cape of Storms" -- salvage operators were keeping a close eye on the stricken 185 metre (607 ft) "Nena J", which was reportedly carrying steel pipes from India to Chile. The carrier, with 16 crew onboard, had dropped anchor some two miles off the coast, after a tow-line from salvage tugs snapped in 10 metre swells on Sunday. "Her anchors are holding and while the NSRI and helicopter rescue teams remain on alert the risk of her running aground appears to have abated with the turn, for the better, in the weather," Craig Lambinon, a spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute said in a statement. (Reporting by Wendell Roelf, editing by Gordon Bell and Mary Gabriel)