Floods
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Kruger National Park hero Mpho Mudau relives the day the floods came
When catastrophic floods hit Letaba Rest Camp in the Kruger National Park, hospital services manager Mpho Mudau bravely led life-saving evacuations. Here is how disaster…
Tributes pour in for Ekurhuleni MMC Andile Mngwevu who died in Mozambique floods
His body was recovered in southern Mozambique days after the vehicle he was travelling in was swept away by floodwaters
Africa’s floods and droughts are messing with our minds. Researchers are trying to figure out how
As climate change intensifies, experts say our health and healthcare systems are going to suffer. But mental health often takes a back seat
SA municipalities get high-resolution data to tackle climate hazards
Wits and Sanbi have launched fact sheets, helping local governments plan for a climate-stressed SA
The falling down place
While the scars left by the April 2022 flash floods aren’t obvious to visitors to Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban, the collective and individual trauma, often left…
Flood damage: An act of God or governance failure?
Everyone remembers April 2022, when torrential rains pummelled KwaZulu-Natal and floodwaters ravaged homes, roads and factories. Lives were lost, families were displaced and…
Cooperative governance allocates R1.4 billion to disaster management
The money will allow municipalities to rebuild structures damaged by floods, said Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa
Trapped in an extreme world
The real Slim Shady of the M&G newsroom is surprised to find even Trump is just imitating – or so his younger colleagues reckon
How climate change affects people with diabetes
Having diabetes is bad enough but heat waves, floods, air pollution and infectious illnesses make dealing with it harder and increase rates
Report: Climate change to reduce incomes, undermine food and water security, raise cost of living
Limiting greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience can improve the everyday lives and experiences of South Africans This content is restricted to registered users and…
Dams burst, bridges washed-away and lives lost in Kenya floods
The worst floods in 30 years took the country by surprise
Emergency services in overdrive as rain batters already flood-hit Durban
The South African Weather Service has issued a level 5 warning for KwaZulu-Natal as flooding leaves the province at a standstill, and schools close early
Durban again hammered by heavy rain, flooding
A severe storm system left a trail of destruction in eThekwini, KwaDukuza and Ndwedwe
Death toll increases to 22 after KZN floods
Cogta has dismissed claims that it has not put measures in place to mitigate against natural disasters
Taken by storm: Why climate change makes transactional sex more common
Because it involves one partner who provides the other with a reward in exchange for sex, it’s not an equal power relationship