Expert warns of more extreme weather events in 2024

JOHANNESBURG - Climate researcher Dr Nomhle Ngwenya says there is an urgent need for the country to invest in better infrastructure to mitigate inevitable natural disasters.

Ngwenya warns that South Africa will probably experience more disastrous floods in 2024.

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She says resilient infrastructure will help save lives and protect the economy.

"We are definitely in for a year of climate and extreme weather events. I mean if you looked at the past two years, if you can just recap 2022 and 2023, how the floods were," she said.

"In 2023 almost no province in the country was untouched by the disastrous floods so we are expected to have more floods in this year. But also we are dealing with the duality of drought conditions.'