DA MPL and leader in the KZN said 'government officials and politicians are hiding the real crisis, which is worsening every day'.
So stringent is the process for provinces and municipalities to access disaster funds, that it takes a bureaucratic journey. In terms of government stipulations, flood-ravaged KwaZulu-Natal is required to make an application to the National Disaster Management Centre and the department of human settlements . Only after verification of an application by the NDMC and the DHS is the application sent to the National Treasury to release the funds.
Only after verification of an application by the NDMC and the DHS is the application sent to the National Treasury to release the funds. An urgent meeting in KZN by parliament’s newly established ad hoc committee with the provincial government and the eThekwini metro executive committee – to conduct an introspection on successes and failures of state intervention;
Calling the KZN provincial government to lobby national government for the release of contingency reserve funds to ensure that rebuilding of infrastructure and damaged houses take off. “When the president told the city that R1 billion in relief funding would be made available, he knew at the time that this was not true.
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