![]() ![]() ![]() The same oppressive regime to which the country owes its intense inequality and poverty rates the same regime that is still casting a shadow over the country’s governance the same regime that the country has been determined to run far away from - is also exacerbating the impacts of the climate crisis on South Africa and its people.īut, we hear you ask, how can apartheid, having ended several decades ago with the declaration of democracy, be connected to the impact of climate change as it’s happening today? It all has to do with apartheid-era spatial planning.Īpartheid spatial planning has always been a problematic structure in need of dismantling, it played a crucial role in separating the country’s people, and is in fact, continuing to succeed at doing just that. ![]() The damage that climate change has caused is enough of a tragedy to consider, but what if we told you that the apartheid regime - despite coming to an end back in 1994 - had its hand in making matters worse? The country’s KwaZulu-Natal province experienced heavy downpours from Apthe rains led to destructive flooding and landslides that consumed thousands of homes, businesses, and infrastructure, and killed an estimated 448 people. Right off the back of catastrophic extreme weather in neighbouring countries Mozambique, Madagascar, and Malawi in the first three months of the year - which you can read more about here - South Africa was hit with disastrous flooding that is continuing to impact thousands of lives. ![]()
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