The government said on Tuesday that residents displaced by the KwaZulu-Natal floods will be relocated to new land. It is estimated that 40,000 residents have been displaced.
According to EWN, the spatial planning dilemma has been brought to light as South Africans come to grips with the devastation caused by the province’s extraordinary rains.
Over 400 people were killed and hundreds of houses were destroyed in the tragedy, “which also rendered some roads unusable while destroying thousands of homes”.
On Tuesday, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said: “Most of those whose homes have been washed away were in places where we shouldn’t send them back. So we had to identify permanent areas whilst they are in temporary areas.”
Meanwhile, in international news, Netflix lost 200, 000 members between January and March. According to the company’s quarterly financial report issued Tuesday, it’s the first decline in Netflix subscribers since the service became accessible outside China six years ago. Netflix withdrew from Russia to protest the conflict against Ukraine, resulting in a 700,000 subscriber loss.
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Headline: KZN floods: 84 health facilities damaged, R184m needed for repairs – News24
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Headline: How eThekwini staffers tried to hijack food meant for rescuers of the dead and displaced – Daily Maverick
Headline: China is keen to help build a Johannesburg to Durban high-speed train – Business Insider
Headline: Liverpool thrash miserable Man United to go top of Premier League – News24
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Headline: Singer Lira suffers stroke; ‘ability to communicate’ affected, says family – EWN
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