{"id":40293,"date":"2025-10-18T19:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/disaster-management-teams-are-on-high-alert-as-heavy-rains-are-expected-across-kzn\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:46:46","slug":"disaster-management-teams-are-on-high-alert-as-heavy-rains-are-expected-across-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/disaster-management-teams-are-on-high-alert-as-heavy-rains-are-expected-across-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Management teams are on high alert as heavy rains are expected across KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KwaZulu Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), through the Provincial Disaster Management Centre, is closely monitoring weather conditions as heavy rains are expected across large parts of the province over the weekend and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the South African Weather Service (SAWS), severe thunderstorms are expected to affect the western parts of KwaZulu Natal (KZN) today, with a likelihood of strong winds, lightning, and heavy downpours that may lead to localised flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Cogta MEC, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi, has assured residents that the Provincial Disaster Management Centre is working closely with all relevant stakeholders including municipalities, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL), and provincial departments to ensure that adequate measures are in place to respond swiftly to any incidents that may arise, especially on major routes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are in constant communication with all disaster management teams&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74946&#038;page=disaster-management-teams-are-on-high-alert-as-heavy-rains-are-expected-across-kzn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KwaZulu Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), through the Provincial Disaster Management Centre, is closely monitoring weather conditions as heavy rains are expected across large parts of the province over the weekend and Monday. According to the South African Weather Service (SAWS), severe thunderstorms are expected to affect the western parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Preparing-for-Winter-Adverse-Weather-Conditions-770x445%20(1)(1).jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-40293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Preparing-for-Winter-Adverse-Weather-Conditions-770x445%20(1)(1).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}