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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
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