OUR BURNING PLANET: Durban floods: An open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa By Desmond D'Sa
President Ramaphosa, on 24 April 2019, you visited South Durban neighbourhoods. You had returned home to South Africa early from an important African Union conference because a catastrophic storm hit us on Easter Monday. The “rain bomb” that pounded South Durban included 168mm of downpour in 24 hours, by far the worst flooding ever recorded in the city.
As you probably know, South Africa’s own highest-polluting corporations – Eskom, Sasol and the largest “minerals-energy complex” firms – place our country at the world’s very highest levels of greenhouse-gas emissions, measured in terms of per-person per-unit-of-GDP. Our economy is carbon-addicted, and that must urgently change.
Siyabonga Zulu, a maskandi musician who stayed in the Clare Estate, Reservoir Hills informal settlement in Durban, died along with his family after a mudslide destroyed their home on 22 April 2019
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