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Floods in September 1987 became the deadliest natural disaster in the history of South Africa, with 506 fatalities. A cut-off low moved across South Africa, fueled by moisture from the southeast. [1] Over a five-day period beginning on September 25, parts of Natal province in
The original bridge was completed in 1959 after a fast construction period of just 3 years, but was rebuilt after the 1987 KwaZulu-Natal floods in what is believed to be record time for a structure of its size. The bridge comprises a span of approximately 412.5m and is founded on concrete caissons bored a depth of approximately 18m to the ...
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1908 Port Elizabeth flood; 1987 South Africa floods; 2010–2011 Southern Africa floods; 2016 Johannesburg flood; 2019 Durban Easter floods; 2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods; 2023 South Africa floods; 2023 Western Cape floods
In April 2022, days of heavy rain across KwaZulu-Natal in southeastern South Africa led to deadly floods. Particularly hard-hit were areas in and around Durban. At least 436 people died across the province, with an unknown number of people missing as of April 22. [2] Several thousand homes were damaged or destroyed.
The flood-prone Tulare Lake Basin is the one part of the Central Valley that has a special exemption from state-required flood control plans, leaving the area without a clear public strategy for ...
KwaZulu-Natal (/ k w ɑː ˌ z uː l uː n ə ˈ t ɑː l /, also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") [6] is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.
TANAH DATAR (Reuters) -Flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province killed at least 43 people over the weekend while a search for 15 missing people continued, authorities said ...