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Helen Zille to BBC: Weather Experts Got It Wrong (Due to Climate Change)

Western Cape Premier Helen Zille told BBC Newsnight on Thursday evening that today’s crisis in Cape Town was not meant to hit for another ten years. She said the weather services got it wrong… because of climate change. “This drought could never have been foreseen,” Zille said. “The South African Weather Services have said to […]

By SAPeople
25-01-18 11:50
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Western Cape Premier Helen Zille told BBC Newsnight on Thursday evening that today’s crisis in Cape Town was not meant to hit for another ten years. She said the weather services got it wrong… because of climate change.

“This drought could never have been foreseen,” Zille said.

“The South African Weather Services have said to me their models don’t work anymore, in an era of Climate Change.

“The climate change projections were to have hit us in 2025. They came 10 years before that. This is very real and very challenging… and we all have to pull together when the experts can’t predict anything anymore.

Watch Helen Zille on BBC: “We all have to pull together when the experts can’t predict anything anymore”

“And we have to make sure that we control what we can control… which is our own behaviour, and make sure we’re ready for Day Zero and that we’re pulling together, as really South Africans can do when they need to.”

Not everyone has been pulling together. It was announced yesterday that over 50% of Capetonians are still using more than the daily allowance, and videos emerged of people in Cape Town suburbs and townships washing cars with drinking water.

While facing the worst drought in its history, Cape Town is also suffering leadership issues. Last night a vote of no confidence in Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille was reached by the DA City of Cape Town caucus.