Living the realities: Communities struggle to combat urban flooding challenges

AS if by design, torrential rainfall swept through peri-urban, rural areas and cut across urban centres, leaving a trail of disaster and devastation in its wake.  

In the Caledonia community, 25km east to the outskirts of Harare, Tapiwa Moyo watched helplessly as his makeshift, but viable two tuckshops were swept away by rising floodwaters.  

“I’ve never seen anything like this, watching my family’s livelihood being swept away,” he lamented, surveying the damage to the now vacant and devastated space where his tuckshops used to be.  

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