South Africa: Residents who suffered losses in recent dam bursts ‘should sue government’

Anton Bredell, the Western Cape MEC for local government, environmental affairs and development planning, has urged residents who lost their houses or have no water or electricity because of dam bursts in Dassenberg, Riverlands, to sue the national departments of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and of Water and Sanitation through their municipality.

Speaking on Thursday during the Western Cape provincial legislature’s debate on the impact of climate disasters on service…