“Alarming” consequences loom for KwaZulu-Natal if town planning regulations are not enforced to mitigate the effects of heavy weather.
Non-compliance and lax enforcing, especially in built-up areas of KwaZulu-Natal, would continue to yield catastrophic consequences like those caused by heavy rains that lashed Margate last weekend and the floods in Durban in April 2022.
University of KwaZulu-Natal town and regional planning professor Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, whose most recent book, The Anatomy of