CLEAN-UP AFTER CATASTROPHE
Apr 29, 2022
2 minutes
BY SIPHOKAZI ZAMA
CATASTROPHIC is how President Cyril Ramaphosa described the flooding that devastated swathes of Kwa -Zulu-Natal, leading to him declaring a state of disaster in the province. And catastrophic it is.
Some 435 people died, homes were washed away – leaving more than 7 000 homeless. Families were torn apart, schools and healthcare facilities decimated, roads and railways ruined, livelihoods destroyed – the heart-breaking litany of destruction caused
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