Kzn Floods

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Distress: A bridge (above) north of Durban was one of many destroyed by the 2022 floods.
Infrastructure to roads alone is estimated at R5.6-billion. (Marco Longari/AFP)

Public protector probes 2022 KZN flood relief efforts

The auditor general found KwaZulu-Natal only spent R251 million of the R5.8 billion budget designated after the disaster

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

A general view of containers that fell over at a container storage facility following heavy rains and winds in Durban, on April 12, 2022. (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP)

AFRICAN WILD DOGS

VIDEO: Five climate impacts

Climate change is already having an impact in southern Africa

Lesego Chepape

Cut-off low pressure systems caused deadly floods in KwaZulu-Natal in 1856, 1905, 1987 and 2019 but South Africa failed to prepare for the flooding in April. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)

‘There were clear warnings before deadly KZN floods’

While the country’s leaders blamed climate change, a top climatologist has questioned whether this is strictly accurate

Sheree Bega

Toyota SA Production plant.

Toyota factory in KZN up and running four months after being halted by floods

Thousands of jobs retained as plant goes back into full production following clean-up operation

Lerato Matebese