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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)
AGSA

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
3 min read
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

VIDEO: Five climate impacts

Climate change is already having an impact in southern Africa

  • Lesego Chepape
1 min read
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)
KZN FLOODS

‘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
5 min read
Toyota SA Production plant.
ANC

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
3 min read