Parliament's ad hoc joint committee on flood and disaster relief and recovery has received detailed reports on how the departments are assisting affected provinces.
Acting head of the national disaster management centre Ane Bruwer said several task teams are providing the centre with weekly reports on humanitarian relief and infrastructure work.There were 99 shelters in KwaZulu-Natal where victims were housed.
“In North West there were shelters but all the evacuees that were accommodated at shelters have gone back to their respective homes and in the Northern Cape, an action plan has been established for the Tsantsabane Local Municipality on the repairing of damaged roofs and gravelling of roads.” In terms of human settlements, Bruwer said there had been applications for assistance. “Of the estimated R2.1bn required to fund the disaster, an amount of R515m was made available through reprioritisation. There is a shortfall of R1.6bn ...”“There has been progress in various regions in terms of water supply in eThekwini. In the inner west region it’s about 90% complete, in the outer west it improved from 30% to 80%. In the central region it improved from 45% to 70%.
“What we did in April is that we utilised the money that we have instead of waiting for the disaster money because disaster funding takes about 18 months to come through.”
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