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N the past two years, our people and institutions have been on the frontlines of a series of novel challenges and disasters such as CoVID-19, the July 2021 unrests and, lately, the floods in the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.
Rainfall that caused flooding in KwaZulu-Natal in April was between 4% and 8% times more intense owing to climate change, analysis by climate scientists show.
South Africa is in the eye of the climate change storm, according to SALGA this is due to corruption, poor planning and infrastructure.
Poor planning, historic infrastructure issues and corruption has left SA communities and municipalities unprepared for the devastation the climate crisis can wreak on the country, according to an official at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). During a webinar about the impact of climate change and changing weather patterns on society, Salga's advisor on climate change, Slindile Maphumulo unpacked whether municipal infrastructure is responsive to climate change. The webinar was hosted by the Government Communication and Information System, the Department of Forestry, F...
Glad to see we're getting the important stuff sorted, then: Minister Dlamini-Zuma has finally passed her one-question geography test...