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Disaster management

The Department of Cooperative Governance is responsible for disaster management in South Africa. The National Disaster Management Centre has been established to ensure:

• Integrated institutional capacity for disaster risk management
• Disaster risk assesment
• Disaster risk reduction
• Response and recovery

Floods 2011 - Minister of Cooperative Affairs S Shiceka declared 33 municipalities in eight provinces affected by floods as disater areas.

Photo gallery - photos of government assistance and flood damage.

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Last modified: 28 February 2011 12:07:44.