KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has been devastated by recurring floods and storms, displacing communities and causing extensive property damage. While natural disasters are inevitable, poor infrastructure ...

The DA in KwaZulu-Natal says the recent destructive storm in the province highlights the urgent need for improved disaster preparedness and infrastructure resilience. The inclement weather over ...

The South African government declared a provincial disaster for KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, April 14, with local news outlets reporting that over 300 people have died. Eyewitness News said clean-up ...

The government has declared KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) a "disaster-affected area" after catastrophic floods that have claimed several lives and caused widespread destruction, including washed-away roads ...

cabinet resolved that the province should be declared an area of disaster. “Since yesterday on the 11th of April 2022, the Province of KwaZulu-Natal experienced what is one of the worst weather ...

Municipalities such as the disaster-hit city of eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal must not allow people to build in flood-prone areas, because once people settle in an area it becomes expensive to ...

More information: S.W. Grab et al, A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836–2022): the April 2022 Durban floods in historical context, South African Geographical Journal (2023). DOI: 10. ...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has expressed gratitude for a generous disaster relief donation from the Chinese Government, valued at R1 ...

Four members from the City of Ekurhuleni’s DEMS of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) are putting their abilities to the trial with other rescue coworkers for the disaster in KwaZulu-Natal.

The disastrous flood that hit Durban in April 2022 was the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in collective terms of lives lost, homes and infrastructure ...