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Informal settlements have been particularly badly affected by the latest storms and flooding. (File photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Flooding, damage as storms batter Cape Town

Informal settlements around the city, and the township of Khayelitsha, have been severely affected

Households in our rural areas and informal settlements, like the Jika Joe settlement near the Pietermaritzburg CBD on the banks of the Dorpspruit in KwaZulu-Natal, have the least infrastructure, the lowest levels of income, and the least resilience to shocks. Photo: Cameron Brisbane

OPINION | The hidden side of the KwaZulu-Natal floods

South Africa’s rural areas and informal settlements need the greatest protection against climate change

Future shock: Huge waves at Durban seafront were caused by tropical Cyclone Irina which hit in 2012. Ancient sediment from the seabed off the city’s coast provide evidence of extreme tropical storms, and modelling suggests this is likely to happen again. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP

Intense tropical cyclones could hit South Africa’s east coast in the future — study

Past climate conditions that led to intense tropical cyclones battering KwaZulu-Natal’s coast are similar to the ones projected now under global warming

End despair: Artist Banksy’s 2019 tribute to the Extinction Rebellion, a movement that wants states to stop global warming, which causes extreme weather and disrupts ecosystems.  (Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto)

Disaster preparedness can’t wait

But solutions can only be truly effective if funding and threat information reaches the local level

Mozambique faces more damage with Cyclone Kenneth. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Mozambique and Comoros brace for cyclone Kenneth

As the storm neared, schools were closed and inter-island hopper flight suspended

Mashaba concludes investigation into Jo’burg storm

On December 30 last year, a violent storm caused extensive damage to some 1 326 properties

Cars and homes were washed away but far more damaging to the shacks are the city’s bulldozers.

The furious storm ripped through Durban, but life goes on

Tuesday’s storm was insane, a reminder of nature’s fury when the city was locked down, buried in water: the cost is going to be huge.

Hurricane Maria has left chaos and devastation in its wake

‘Storm of the century’ Maria pummels Puerto Rico

Hurricane Maria has brought devastation to the island of Puerto Rico and is responsible for 10 deaths so far

Houses in the Knysna Heights area were destroyed in the fires on June 9 2017.

​Climate change evident in Cape storm and Knysna fires

The Knysna fires and storms in the Cape are indicators that the climate is changing. Solutions, which exist, must be implemented.

Damaging storms are hitting the country more often as summer temperatures rise.

Insurers seek shelter from the storms

Insurance claims and payouts are soaring as havoc wreaked by climate change in the form of violent storms, rain and hail continues to increase.

Thursday’s storm caused extensive damage to property in Soshanguve and Mamelodi

Tshwane declares state of disaster after violent storms

The City of Tshwane has declared a state of disaster in two areas, following heavy storms that caused damage of an estimated R100-million.

Millions needed to fix storm damage in W Cape

It will cost the Cape Agulhas municipality R10-million to fix damage to property caused by storms in Arniston at the weekend, says a report.

Des Jacobs waits everyday for a storm to arrive. Madelene Cronjé

Storm-chaser seeks beauty in drama

An intrepid local photographer, Des Jacobs is hooked on snapping nature’s own fireworks. Sipho Kings spoke to him.

US digs out from epic winter storm

US digs out from epic winter storm

Millions of Americans dug out from an epic winter storm on Wednesday that buried more than a third of the United States in drifting snow.

Hundreds homeless after E Cape storm

Scores of people were injured, some critically, by the strong winds and hail that hammered parts of the Eastern Cape.

KZN counts cost of deadly storm

The recent storm in KwaZulu-Natal had affected 1 256 people, the provincial department of local government said on Saturday afternoon.

Dozens killed in Vietnam storm

Tropical storm Mirinae killed at least 40 people and left 11 missing in Vietnam, a national disaster official said on Tuesday.

Mopping up continues in Cape Town after floods

Cape Town’s disaster and emergency workers continued removing debris and unblocking drains after heavy rains drove residents from their homes.

Bad weather forces evacuation of Otter Trail hikers

Hikers were being evacuated from the Otter Trail on Wednesday as bitterly cold and stormy weather swept the Southern Cape coast.

Premier warns of more KZN storms

More ‘ferocious storms’ may pound KwaZulu-Natal by as early as Friday, Premier S’bu Ndebele said on Tuesday.