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Nov 20, 2024 | bizcom.to | Karen King |Yolandi Meyer |Alessandra Prentice |Mahamat Ramadane

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Although September’s snowfall, which stranded motorists on the N3 and resulted in two deaths, was outside normal weather patterns, snow in spring and summer in South Africa is not entirely unheard of. Records from Snow Report Southern Africa show that snow has fallen in September, October and November, especially in the Eastern and Western Cape and in KwaZulu-Natal since 1953, and fairly regularly between 2010 and 2018.

Oct 17, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Karen King |Yolandi Meyer

CLIMATE CHANGE OP-ED Our weather is likely to become increasingly unpredictable. A warming climate is causing rainfall to intensify and droughts to become more severe and prolonged. The occasional springtime snowfall in South Africa may become both heavier and harder to anticipate and address. Although September’s snowfall, which stranded motorists on the N3 and resulted in two deaths, was outside normal weather patterns, snow in spring and summer in South Africa is not entirely unheard of.

Jun 24, 2024 | bizcommunity.com | Karen King |Claire Watt |Wendell Roelf |Kate Abnett

Advertise your job vacancies In the past decade we have seen an increase in climate-related disasters globally and specifically across South Africa. Droughts, floods, wildfires, high winds, and very unusual weather patterns are emerging more frequently, and are becoming more extreme, causing billions of rands of damage to infrastructure, and loss of people’s homes, lives and livelihoods.

Jun 6, 2024 | bizcommunity.com | Karen King |Boureima Balima |Abdel-Kader Mazou |Claire Watt

Search jobs As a warm and dry country, South Africa has always been a climate stressed country. Rainfall is low compared to global averages, and the impacts of El Niño and La Niña often exacerbate prevailing conditions. Add to this the impacts of climate change, however, and the country’s current and future climatic concerns become even more acute.

Feb 28, 2024 | businesslive.co.za | Karen King

“In recent years, the country has had to confront the effects of climate change. We have had devastating wildfires in the Western Cape, destructive floods in KwaZulu-Natal, unbearable heatwaves in the Northern Cape, persistent drought in the Eastern Cape and intense storms in Gauteng,” said President Cyril Ramaphosa in his state of the nation address in February. The April 2022 floods Durban experienced were the most catastrophic natural disaster ever recorded in KwaZulu-Natal.