A Durban businessman has highlighted the city’s poor infrastructure maintenance as main reason for the damage caused by last year’s April floods.
He urged the city to attend to infrastructure maintenance issues because more floods could still cause similar, if not worse, damage to businesses and households if the drainage issues are not be resolved.
Detailing his losses, Nzama said they couldn’t add businesses like Pick n Pay, Chicken Licken, Nandos and Pie City because contractors figured they could see it flooding at any time. His total losses over the 12 months from the April amounted to millions. Nzama is one of three small-business owners in Umlazi who were visited by KZN's MEC for economic development, tourism and the environmental , Siboniso Duma, on Tuesday to assess the damage caused by the April/May 2022 floods and those in February this year.
He said they would consider inviting the human settlements department to create a “property system” that would come up with ways to deal with people building in areas that are at risk during floods. They also visited the Exit car wash and shisanyama outside Umlazi Mega City as well as Indofire butchery and Shisanyama in L section.
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