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the country’s climate future is fast becoming hotter, drier and more dangerous. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)
CLIMATE ADAPTATION

South Africa’s major climate threats — from drought to deadly heatwaves

From collapsing maize yields to a possible cyclone hitting Richards Bay, a Wits expert warns that South Africa’s climate future is fast becoming hotter, drier and more dangerous

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Med~Evac joined the search for the vehicle that washed away off the low bridge near fiddlewood farm in Margate during the flood. It was located this morning approximately 5km away near the freeway with 3 occupants still inside the vehicle. Unfortunately the occupants did not survive. (Med-Evac)
MARGATE FLOODS

Flood warning: Heavy rains forecast for Durban and South Coast

Three people were washed away in a vehicle and died in the Margate floods overnight

  • Lyse Comins
2 min read
Political interference, corruption, skills shortages, supply chain inefficiencies and red tape are among the causes of the eThekwini municipality’s water and sanitation woes that have led to a breakdown of the water treatment infrastructure. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COVID 19

Ramaphosa steps in to tackle eThekwini service delivery crisis

An announcement about measures to reduce load-shedding in the metro is expected ‘soon’

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
Residents, community organisations and civil society groups across Johannesburg have united to demand urgent action to end the city’s deepening water crisis. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BEIRA FLOOD

African cities’ water crisis: ‘Too much, too little, too polluted’

Rapid urbanisation and flooding pose a risk to the continent’s cities that, by 2050, will be home to more than 900 million people, mostly living in slums

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
This aerial view shows sports fields under water days after heavy rains in Durban on April 15, 2022. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)
APRIL 2022 FLOODS

Business urges eThekwini metro to rebuild infrastructure, prepare for climate change

Following the 27 June deluge, the Durban Chamber of Commerce has warned the city that industry will relocate if it does not put in place risk mitigation measures

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
“This area of Turkey is prone to earthquakes as it lies at the intersection of three of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust: the Anatolian, Arabian and African plates.” (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)
CLIMATE CHANGE

The quakes in Türkiye and Syria show we need to be better prepared for disasters

As climate change hits, natural disasters will happen more frequently, and it is better to make provision for them than scramble to mop up afterwards

  • Ozayr Patel
5 min read
Residents of the towns and villages falling under the Ugu district municipality have been fighting for a secure water supply for years. (Photo Delwyn Verasamy)
DURBAN FLOODS

South Coast residents to start payment go-slow over Ugu water crisis

Residents of the towns and villages falling under the Ugu district municipality have been fighting for a secure water supply for years

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
eNkanini informal settlment resident, Thulisile Ntobela (31) carries donated food in Durban, on April 22, 2022. Ntobela lost her home after the floods caused a mudslide that destroyed the shack where she was living. – First it was Covid, then riots and now floods: KwaZulu-Natal (NZN) province, South Africa’s gateway to the Indian Ocean, is reeling from a unprecedented string of disasters. (Guillem Sartorio/AFP via Getty Images)
DURBAN FLOODS

OPINION | eThekwini refugees ordered back to flood-prone, damaged transit camp

Many of the flood victims were former residents of Mega Village informal settlement, on the banks of the Umlaas Canal, who lost everything in the floods of 2019

  • Vanessa Burger
6 min read