Building Healthier Cities: Reflecting on Extreme Flooding in Durban
Nomandla Nqanula, Informal Settlement Resident, reflects on the extreme flooding event in 2022 that caused widespread damage across the city of Durban.
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- Production Year 2024
- Length 00:00:53
- Production Company Open Planet Studios
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- FormatMP4MOV
Synopsis
Interview transcript:2022, that rain!They said the rain is gonna be more than the one we know.We hoped that it's going to be the rain that comes usually in our rooms and goes away.We didn't know that it's going to be the rain that takes away everything that we had.But then it happened.Then after that, we had to adapt that this is happening in our lives.I've lived here for 10 years.I've seen a huge change, a climate change.Some trees that were green, they are dry.The grass that we had is no longer green.The floods that we're getting are more than those we had before.That is the extreme weather that we receive.
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