COOPERATIVE Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has extended the National State of Disaster to 18 August 2022.
In a Government Gazette published on Monday, the Ministry said the extension of the National State of Disaster “owes to the impact of severe weather events which was originally declared on 18 April 2022”.
It said: “The extension takes into account the need to continue augmenting the existing contingency measures undertaken by organs of state to mitigate and address the impact of severe weather phenomena on affected communities and infrastructure”.
The Ministry said government was working with various social partners to transition affected communities from humanitarian emergency to stabilisation and recovery.
A total of 85 280 people were affected by floods which wreaked havoc in KwaZulu-Natal, leaving thousands of people in five districts and the eThekwini Municipality homeless, with 461 fatalities. Over 4 000 houses were damaged in
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