Question NW2519 to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

Reply:

1. Yes, the list for all damaged infrastructure as received from the respective provinces have been furnished for roads and bridges damaged by floods in (i) KwaZulu-Natal and (ii) Eastern Cape. Below table sumarises the damaged infrastructure:

Table: Summaries for Eastern Cape & KwaZulu-Natal

Infrastructure	Eastern Cape	KwaZulu-Natal	Totals
Number of Roads submitted by the province	153	1 329	1 482
Number of roads funded by the NDMC	21	1 329	1 350
Number of bridges submitted by the province	14	153	167
Number of bridges funded by the NDMC	04	153	157

1. (a) Fixing of damaged roads and bridges is the responsibility of the affected provinces and municipalities as per their respective legislated mandate. However, following the applications by these affected organs state, DCOG allocated an amount of R3.1 billion (R3 060 038 000 for KZN and R113 511 000 for EC) from the disaster grants to augment the resources of the affected organs of state to fix the damaged infrastructure that included roads and bridges in the EC and KZN respectively. (i) A total of 1507 roads and bridges respectively were funded by DCOG to be fixed by the responsible organs of state (4 bridges in the EC and 153 bridges in KZN) (21 roads in the EC and 1 350 roads in KZN). (ii) The fixing of the damaged infrastructure that could not be funded from the disaster grants is the responsibility of the affected organs of state through existing programmes and arrangements as per the Disaster Management Act, 57 of 2002 (Act 57 of 2002) (b) the time frames for fixing infrastructure still not yet fixed are determined by the responsible organs of state inline with their existing arrangements.

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