Committee On Flood Disaster Relief And Recovery Not Pleased with Tshwane Metro’s poor response to flood victims

STAFF REPORTER 

Parliament’s Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Tuesday Flood Disaster Relief and Recovery conducted an oversight visit to the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality to assess the extent to which the government has provided assistance towards flood disaster relief and recovery for victims.

The two-day visit on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Gauteng Province, relates to the damage caused by the floods that occurred from December 2022 to February 2023.

The committee has been mandated by the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces to oversee the relief and recovery action after the occurrence of floods in five provinces including Gauteng.

The committee, chaired by Cedric Frolick and Jomo Nyambi, said it is not pleased with the unresponsiveness shown by the City of Tshwane towards flood victims who have been accommodated in shelters after they lost their homes. 

The committee received briefings from the Gauteng Provincial Government’s MEC for Cooperative