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Cameron Brisbane

Cameron Brisbane is executive director of the Built Environment Support Group. He writes in a personal capacity.

Households in our rural areas and informal settlements, like the Jika Joe settlement near the Pietermaritzburg CBD on the banks of the Dorpspruit in KwaZulu-Natal, have the least infrastructure, the lowest levels of income, and the least resilience to shocks. Photo: Cameron Brisbane
CLIMATE ADAPTATION

OPINION | The hidden side of the KwaZulu-Natal floods

South Africa’s rural areas and informal settlements need the greatest protection against climate change

  • Cameron Brisbane
6 min read
Misizwe Zulu was at the centre of an irregular R290 million electrification project in the Msunduzi local municipality in 2012 in which his company, TNT Technology Solutions, was overpaid by R100 million.
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Anatomy of a failed municipality

The Msunduzi local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is on permanent life support and shows no sign of being cured

  • Cameron Brisbane
10 min read