Drought

Worst Drought On Record For Parts of South Africa

South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province is currently suffering from its most parching drought in over a century.

The country’s weather agency says the prolonged dry spell is due to a worsening El Niño, and follows the driest period since at least 1900.

It was also the third-driest season for South Africa as a whole since the country was in the midst of the Great Depression during the early 1930s.

Starving cattle have become traffic hazards around Durban, where motorists are dodging livestock that have resorted to grazing next to roadways. The automobile association says that what little rain has fallen simply flowed off the pavement to create narrow corridors of fresh vegetation that attract the animals.