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//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
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Quite a few airplanes at my local airport ended up in a similar state after the recent snowstorm - this was the biggest and most dramatic, though.
No budget yet to buy a good urna to house my mom's birthday gift. However this 5 gallon aquarium was quite fine. Ang mahalaga naman, since Our Lady Mediatrix of Grace is all white, maigi ng mailagay sa isang kulob na container.
I am using one of our bedrooms in the new house as a temporary home office until we finish out the basement.
Autographed copy of Anthrax's "Worship Music" on the far wall.
- Lieutenant Vananda "Nani" Cholakians opens the gate to LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner property to start processing coronavirus deaths and place them in temporary storage on January 12, 2021. (Photo by / Los Angeles County)
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This man's laborious sidewalk chalk art is effectively an exquisite temporary tattoo, destined to be scrubbed and rinsed from the city's skin before too long.
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During holidays, he lived in this small carrier box. He didn't complain.
We also found an old, small bird cage which served as his "fun cage" in the evenings.
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Service 516 had been on a temporary timetable, due to the closure of Pebble Hill Road at Betchworth, from 8th September 2014. This saw it have to divert via the A24 and double run Headley to/from Box Hill.
Pebble Hill Road re-opened on Friday 23rd January 2015, however Monday 26th January saw the start of a closure of West Street in Dorking, necessitating another temporary timetable. Inbound 516s to Dorking are terminating at The White Horse (rather than continuing to South Street). On departure from Dorking, they are starting at the White Horse, and running via South Street to Townfield Court, where they are serving stop R instead of stop S, then running via Horsham Road, Flint Hill and up the A24 Deepdene Avenue to regain normal line of route. This arrangement is in place all day weekdays, but not Saturdays. The road is closed from 9.15am to 3.30pm on weekdays.
The 465 is also running via Flint Hill and Deepdene Avenue.
Arriva's 32 and Metrobus' 22 and 93 are diverting via Station Road and Ashcombe Road.
Here's the 516's timetable at stop J on Epsom High Street, updated with details of the services' new temporary timetable.
High Street, Epsom, Surrey.
Temporary Engagement Ring until I goto he Jewellers back home in England.
We've been engaged since February but I wanted to get her something solid.
South West Trains services at platforms 20-22. The Waterloo Station & South West upgrade project is taking place between 5 & 28 August 2017 resulting in platforms 1-10 at London Waterloo Station being closed to enable them to be extended resulting in major changes to train services whilst the works are carried out. The former Eurostar platforms 20-24 have temporarily been brought back into use to provide additional capacity during the upgrade.
5 August 2017
Temporary flags line the monumental 100 Victoria Embankment in a display of public support for the Monarchy and promoting national pride on the jubilee weekend.
While I put together the rest of the new home studio. It's weird working in a new space, but also makes for some creative decisions. I'm taking my time putting the studio together.
Often times, road/track construction necessitates the closure of a tram/streetcar line. However, when one of two parallel tracks is closed for such a reason, it is possible to use a temporary switch/crossover to allow continued bi-directional operations.
This example was located on Lidická street, Prague
The radiator is all OK. Just needs painting which will be done when the weather gets better.
I am restoring all the cooling system now rather than when the chassis is all nice paint. (A lot of grinding and welding is taking place at the moment)
The long silver pipe is the top hose. The thermostat housing outlet is level with the centre of the chassis so, it is a long way from the engine to the top of the rad. All in all, it is about 8 feet from the heads to the top of the rad.
This pipe is all new as the old one was full of holes. The bronze housing was reused and the new pipe simply brazed in.
The smaller copper tube on the left is the overflow pipe which just drops down to the bottom and out onto the road. This is original and just cleaned up.