Durban’s battle against broken sewage infrastructure and E coli is playing out in court after the city did not comply with a raft of environmental directives
Heavy rains have lashed the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal in recent days and the death toll continues to rise
Victims were either crushed to death by mudslides or drowned in flood waters according to search and rescue units
Mozambican villagers demand compensation for the destruction of their village caused by the activities of a Chinese mining company
The rains are the deadliest weather-related disaster in over three decades in Japan
Thousands of people have been evacuated from flood-damaged homes in Gaza in what the UN has called "a disaster area", officials said on Saturday.
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/ 24 January 2011
Preliminary indications are that the recent floods across seven provinces could have caused as much as R160-billion worth of infrastructure damage.
The Orange River has broken its banks in the Cape, leaving farmers’ income under water.
A political circus is playing itself out in the flood-hit Themba Khoza informal settlement in the greater Midrand area.
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/ 19 January 2011
Billions of rands will be needed to fix infrastructure damaged during recent heavy flooding in Gauteng, the province said on Wednesday.