DurbanFloods damage soars to R1.1bn DailyNewsSA
Durban - The cost of last week's devastating floods that killed 70 people and displaced thousands of people across KwaZulu-Natal has soared to R1.1bn, Premier Willies Mchunu said on Monday.
Mchunu held a briefing on Monday following an emergency meeting with the eThekwini Municipality's executive committee on Friday. "The KwaZulu-Natal cabinet at its specially convened meeting resolved to seek for the classification of the Provincial State of Disaster. We requested National Government to invoke Section 41 of the Disaster Management Act No.57 because the Province alone cannot cope with these incidents," said Mchunu.
Mchunu said that the toll now stands at 70, with 64 of those coming from eThekwini metropolitan and 6 from Ugu district.
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