Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma gave a briefing on the declaration of a national state of disaster over the severe weather patterns in recent weeks that left large areas in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape flooded.
JOHANNESBURG - Government has blamed climate change for the destruction caused by flooding across KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape but admitted there were also weaknesses in spatial planning that needed to be addressed.
With 4,000 homes destroyed so far and over 40,000 people have been displaced, government said planners needed to go back to the drawing board after the floods.Dlamini-Zuma said people should build back better. Meanwhile, as government insisted the events were due to climate change, meteorologists said the storms were not tropical but instead part of a normal South African weather system.Ministers are touring flood-ravaged parts of KwaZulu-Natal, following the declaration of a national state of disaster.
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