DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLANNING
Following the floods in KwaZulu-Natal in April last year, there has been an increase in house damage, fatalities, and infrastructure damage for the second year in a row.
The torrential rains and tornado on June 27 have demonstrated that climate change is still a reality and, if it persists, it will continue to have an increasingly frequent and wide-ranging impact on people and the environment. These floods and storms have in the past been attributed to climate change. But is our disaster management plan as a country up to speed with climate change,
