KwaZulu-Natal floods ‘the worst we’ve ever seen’ - More than 40 000 KwaZulu-Natal residents have been left homeless after more than 300mm of rain fell in a single day
but the extreme weather in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape — Dlamini Zuma said hundreds of people had died, 4 000 homes have been destroyed and 8 000 damaged. Dlamini Zuma said the reason for reinstating the national state of disaster was that the effect of the floods was well beyond a single province, making it imperative for the government to come on board, and for international support.
“Infrastructure, humanitarian, funding, food, health and medical task teams have been activated and will function immediately at provincial and municipal levels,” he said.allows the intervention to be up to three months, but it can be terminated earlier or extended. “This is a national disaster which cuts across every sector like infrastructure — water, electricity, transport. It has a humanitarian side, which is urgent. People need food, blankets, shelter, beds, and need to be moved to temporary housing before moving to permanent housing.”South Africa National Defence Force
“People were completely trapped. Those who died there had been airlifted out using helicopters and more will come.” Under the national state of disaster, the primary responsibility is assigned to the national government to provide relief, recovery and rehabilitation to people, said Dlamini-Zuma.
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