“In recent years, the country has had to confront the effects of climate change. We have had devastating wildfires in the Western Cape, destructive floods in KwaZulu-Natal, unbearable heat waves in the Northern Cape, persistent drought in the Eastern Cape, and intense storms in Gauteng,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation address in February.
The April 2022 floods that Durban experienced were the most catastrophic