Media Alert: AD HOC Joint Committee on Flood Disaster Relief and Recovery to Conduct Oversight Visit to Eastern Cape

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Parliament, Sunday, 20 August 2023 – The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Flood Disaster Relief and Recovery will this week conduct oversight visits to some areas that were impacted by floods that occurred in 2022 and this year in the Eastern Cape Province.

The objective of the oversight visit is to afford the committee an opportunity to have a clear understanding of the extent to which the government has been able to provide assistance to the province towards flood disaster relief and recovery from the 2022 floods and establish the amount of damage caused by the 2023 floods.


Details of the oversight visit are as follows: 

 Day 1: Tuesday, 22 August 2023 (PORT ST. JOHN’S LOCAL MUNICIPALITY)

Time

Appointment

Venue

 09:45


 10:00

 Pre–briefing (Co-Chairpersons and Eastern Cape Political
 Principals)
 Official opening of the programme:
 • Purpose and introductions
 • Briefing by the Provincial Department of
 COGTA, Provincial Department of Human
 Settlements, Provincial Department of
 Social Development, OR Tambo District
 Municipality and Port St. John’s Local
 Municipality 

 Port St. John’s
 Municipal office

 12:00
 13:00

 Lunch break
 Site visit to:
 • Collapsed the road surface
 • Blocked 500m of the TR29
 • Mngazana bridge on the TR305


 R191 and TR307
 TR29 sinkhole and
 Nkwilini bridge
 TR305

 Day 2: Wednesday, 23 August 2023 (PORT ST. JOHN’S LOCAL MUNICIPALITY)

 Time

Appointment

 Venue

 10:00
 12:00

 Site visit to Green Farm
 Site visit to KwaNonyevu

 Port St. John’s


ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNICATION SERVICES.

For media enquiries, please contact the committee’s Media Officer:

Name: Ms Faith Ndenze

Parliamentary Communication Services

Tel: 021 403 8268