KwaZulu-Natal Floods

eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda said rapid population growth in rural areas over the past few years has led to ...

The flood-damaged R102 in Compensation, between Tongaat and Ballito in KwaZulu-Natal, has claimed another vehicle.

A contractor has been appointed to begin repair work on two large pipelines that transfer raw water from Nagle Dam to ...

SA risks more devastation effects if it doesn’t integrate and co-ordinate its disaster management response, write Hope ...

The South African National Defence Force has come to the rescue of Tongaat children, who would have missed their second ...

Newly elected chairperson of the SA Local Government Association (Salga) Thami Ntuli has expressed dismay over the ...

Four people were trapped in a vehicle when it plunged off a flood-damaged road on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on ...

Local sales grow 2.1% compared to May last year, but bakkie sales take a big hit due to Toyota's flooded factory

The eThekwini municipality has issued a water billing explainer after the floods, spelling out how and why residents ...

While the deputy president has highlighted the matter, others have been beating this drum for years

Despite Msunduzi municipality mayor Mzimkhulu Thebolla’s undertaking - together with some of his ANC counterparts - to ...

KwaZulu-Natal government are struggling to find appropriate land to erect temporary residential units for thousands of ...

As KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape begin to reprioritise their budgets to respond to the deadly floods as instructed ...

"We want to assure people that the real time monitoring of the resources and the impact of the fund is very important," ...

The family home was caught in the weekend KZN floods, leaving the siblings with damage not covered by insurance

In the wake of Covid, unrest and floods, a proposed giant Ferris wheel has become the eye of a public storm

With devastating flash floods again hitting KwaZulu-Natal, and other provinces experiencing downpours, we look at how ...

At least one body has been recovered after heavy rain hit KwaZulu-Natal for the second time in two months at the ...

Among areas visited by the premier are Bluff, uMdloti and Westbrook, where properties and other infrastructure were ...

Minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele has confirmed that provincial departments have to use their own budgets in ...

While KwaZulu-Natal has been thrown into turmoil by a fresh bout of flooding that has already claimed one life, ...

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala was forced to evacuate his family from their home in La Mercy, an area devastated ...

Affected by the floods and need help? Here's where you can go.

Mop up operations were expected to begin in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday after heavy rain lashed the province over the ...

A Durban family said they will have to start a new life somewhere else after being stuck in a flooded building for the ...

Heavy rainfall predicted for KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday has forced the ANC to postpone the launch of the Letsema ...

The small KwaZulu-Natal north coast resort town of Umdloti has been ravaged by floods which damaged multimillion-rand ...

As KwaZulu-Natal continues to experience heavy rains that are causing floods in the area, more than 200 people were ...

At least 190 elderly residents in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal had to be evacuated from their homes on Saturday night due to ...

People in coastal areas of KwaZulu-Natal were warned on Saturday to exercise extreme caution as heavy downpours sweep ...

The country is being dismantled bit by bit in broad daylight. Everything, it seems, is up for grabs, and cable theft is ...

Heavy rainfall predicted for KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday has forced the ANC to postpone the launch of the Letsema ...

The SA Weather Service has issued a yellow level 2 and level 4 disruptive rain warning for parts of KwaZulu-Natal for ...

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala is giving an update on the recent flood disaster in the province after a ...

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala on Thursday said although service providers had been appointed to build 1,810 ...

About 30,000 employees across the manufacturing industry are out of work because of the KwaZulu-Natal floods last month ...

"The night the floods started, the sand looked like it was boiling from the water, the whole house was moving," said ...

According to the figures supplied, the North West is the only province that showed a significant decrease in the number ...

Spokesperson Phumla Williams said the allegations are malicious and work is underway by government to help communities ...

SA's largest crude oil refinery Sapref is forging ahead with its cleanup of contaminants that washed up onto beaches ...

‘Inordinate rise in funeral and credit insurance claims’, and good news for a man who had to swerve to avoid cows

The poor management and development of critical infrastructure, as well as red tape for JSE-listed companies, is ...

SA's largest crude oil refinery Sapref is forging ahead with its cleanup of contaminants that washed up onto beaches ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is mobilising all available resources to help provinces affected by the ...

The floods that devastated parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in April, killing 435 people,  were definitely ...

The economic reconstruction and recovery under way across the country in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic cannot ...

The economic reconstruction and recovery under way across the country in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic cannot ...

Residents of Tongaat and Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal received much-needed water tanks after going a month without ...

Logistics and transport experts say Transnet’s plan to get single line rail operations from Durban to Gauteng restored ...

Pompene River bridge team, consisting of 10 community activists from Shallcross, has been asked to repair the Hans ...

Airlines are spending as much as R1.5m on each flight to divert their aircraft for refuelling in Durban and Airports ...

The floods that devastated parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in April, killing 435 people,  were definitely ...

A private higher education college has saved a severely flood-damaged Durban primary school from permanently shutting ...

Donations can be dropped off at customer care centres and the city’s head office and administration building in ...

The UN SA has reallocated R21m of its programming budget to support government’s response to flood-damaged ...

Deputy President David Mabuza has told MPs that progress has been made in addressing service delivery issues in several ...

Durban beaches remain closed on Thursday due to the high levels of E coli in the water.

"The president made a  lot of promises in parliament when we had the debate, but it turned out to be nothing more than ...

Provincial health department wants to expedite the introduction of its e-health system to avoid further record loss

The KwaZulu-Natal health department has been forced to put some planned maintenance on hold to channel money from its ...

"The civic pride shown here encourages us as a city to also continue to work hard to ensure that our city is repaired ...

A group of Shallcross residents rebuilt a bridge washed away in the recent deadly floods in KwaZulu-Natal within five ...

Mid-year matric examinations will not be affected by the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal.

Those who donated to the province include the Motsepe Foundation, Gift of the Givers, Cosatu and the EFF.

So much was lost, in lives and possessions, that many survivors despair of ever emerging from their grief and ...

E-hailing service Uber has partnered with Vuthu Culture, a KZN based non-profit organisation to offer free rides to ...

Residents in Tongaat, north of Durban, are planning to take the streets on Thursday in protest against not having a ...

It is too late to avoid the impact of climate change which, according to experts at the Centre for Environmental ...

The impact of the recent devastating floods on the ocean will not affect this year’s sardine run in KwaZulu-Natal.

An urgent appeal has been made to the SA National Roads Agency after three vehicles crashed into concrete barriers ...

Famous Durban train has run out of steam, after the recent floods caused extensive damage and undermined the tracks.

Recent KZN floods have proved the value of having the right cover, because you never know when a disaster will strike

Some flood-hit areas in Durban still have no access to water or are battling with irregular supply, KZN premier Sihle ...

The eThekwini municipality has called for empty hotels and hijacked buildings owned by the state to be renovated and ...

Ntuzuma locals claim authorities have yet to visit the area where skeletal remains were uprooted from graves during the ...

The provincial department of education proposes urgent interventions to help pupils catch up on missed classes.

The stress of the deadly floods in KwaZulu-Natal has been described by many residents as a reminder of the riots and ...

Lack of infrastructure maintenance; corruption in which dodgy black empowerment companies gifted tenders build flimsy ...

Too often, the biggest concerns around catastrophic disasters have to do with money, damage to roads, infrastructure ...

A R15bn credit guarantee scheme to help small and medium businesses recover from the ravages of Covid-19, the July ...

The KwaZulu-Natal floods have highlighted an alarming trust deficit between the government and the public. Chris Barron ...

“You ask what is needed? Boots. So we can go through the rubble and look for the lost bodies."

Wednesday April 27 marked the 28th anniversary of the first democratic elections in our country. I am reluctant to ...

The government has also received donations from citizens and non-governmental organisations for relief efforts, says ...

It’s unclear how many animals were killed in the recent deluge but several dogs, cats and reptiles got a second chance

Health minister Joe Phaahla says his department will have to pay close to R190m to fix health infrastructure that was ...

Technicians fixing a road that washed away during the recent floods were robbed of a provincial department of transport ...

Concrete barricades placed on the unstable R102 in KwaDukuza, north of Durban, were allegedly "maliciously" removed ...

An eThekwini ward councillor on Tuesday called for a mass funeral in an area where about 26 people died in the recent ...

The displacement of people and overcrowding that often results from flooding provides optimal conditions for outbreaks ...

These celebs did not hesitate to lend a hand

Political parties presented a united front during the special joint sitting of the National Council of Provinces and ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is addressing the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces on the devastation ...

In this emotional feature, TimesLIVE brings you exclusive footage, images and interviews with those who have lost ...

Parliament has established a special committee to oversee the implementation of flood relief measures and rebuilding in ...

In a public announcement shared by the eThekwini municipality, the education department says it does not want pupils to ...

Karl Dauth identified his son's body at the Phoenix mortuary on April 16. A week later, his son's body remained in the ...

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About 6,278 people are homeless while 7,245 people remain in shelters in eThekwini.

An on-duty eThekwini municipality official was shot dead at a water tanker filling point in Ottawa on Saturday.

Will the relief funds reach victims?

The risks to SA’s economic prospects have risen after the floods in KwaZulu-Natal as the province faces a massive ...

The government has revised the death toll in the KwaZulu-Natal floods from 448 to 435.