– Serious implementation of SPLUMA as spatial development is safety oriented, not political,
– Employment of green specialists to mitigate climate change hazards,
– Establish a permanent disaster management task force, through a practical framework from our learned lessons,
– Review of our coastal and waste management plans to include the rivers that feed into the sea,
– Relocate transit camps away from rivers and implement the 100m flood-line regulations, especially in Reservoir Hills,
– Remove the silt from existing dams, fix these and build smaller dams,
– Canalisation of rivulets along flats in Phoenix, Umlazi, Chatsworth and heavily built areas,
– Such river projects will lead to proper river-bank infrastructure to be used as an alternative transport system, as well as a tourist revenue stream,
– NGO’s planting trees must be supported,
– Waste recycling initiatives must be implemented by eThekwini,
– Therefore, an FIS should be undertaken by the local government portfolio committee in this regard.