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Senior official in the National Treasury Mampho Modise says no further funds will be allocated to KZN after the R1 billion. Photo: GCIS / Flickr and @TreasuryRSAc / Twitter

No other funds will be allocated to KZN for floods this year – Treasury

Treasury has allocated R1 billion to KZN following the devastating floods and revealed that no further funds will go to the province.

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Senior official in the National Treasury Mampho Modise says no further funds will be allocated to KZN after the R1 billion. Photo: GCIS / Flickr and @TreasuryRSAc / Twitter

Senior official in the National Treasury Mampho Modise said that R1 billion has already been allocated to deal with the floods in KZN. Treasury indicated that there was no need for a Special Appropriation Bill for the floods in the province.

Various government systems allocated funds to KZN following the floods

Funds have been allocated to the province through various government systems. Modise was speaking to the standing committee on appropriations on Tuesday, 3 May.

She further explained that there be no other funds allocated to deal with the KZN floods over the course of 2022. Over 430 people died in KZN due to the floods and an insane amount of money is needed to fix roads, bridges, houses, damaged businesses and infrastructure.’

President Cyril Ramaphosa recently announced that there will be numerous resources and more funds put into KwaZulu-Natal after the floods. Parliament set up a special committee to oversee the use of funds in KZN.

Modise explained to MPs that the budget that was allocated this year takes the issue of floods into consideration. She added that the Disaster Management Act is drafted for disasters. 

“The budget in its current form takes into consideration the floods. We have the Disaster Management Act that was drafted for disasters. When KZN experienced a disaster it wasn’t a shock to the system, it wasn’t something that we cannot deal with. We have been dealing with disasters for some time now,” said Modise.

Government has a method for the funds allocated

She then went into detail about how the disaster would be funded. Modise said that the municipalities’ financial year ends in June and some of the money allocated for grants can be used for the disaster.

“There are different ways in which disaster is going to be funded. The first thing is that the municipalities, their financial year ends in June and it doesn’t end in March like a normal department or province. Therefore they can use some of the money that was allocated for the grant to augment some of the funding that was needed for the disaster. We have allocated money for human settlements and co-operative governance and traditional affairs in terms of the disaster grant and that is a billion. Thirdly, the financial year has just started, it’s only a month. The departments have sufficient amounts to basically move some of the funding that is appropriated to deal with the disaster,”

said Mampho Modise

Modise further explained that National Treasury’s Chief Procurement Officer has issued regulations to the relevant departments.

Treasury revealed that a Special Appropriation Bill is not necessary for KZN following the devastating floods. Photo: GCIS / Flickr

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