HEARINGS: PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

1. HEARINGS: PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE WESTERN CAPE MUNICIPALITIES: STATE OF READINESS Presentation by Department of Local Government and Housing on 30 – 31 May 2006

2. Underlying/Predisposing Factors Disasters Experienced: Last 5 Years Most Frequent Disasters Disaster Risk Profile • Extreme weather • Meteorological drought • Riverine flooding • Estuarine flooding • Coastal flooding/storm surges • Urban flooding • Hydrological drought • Agricultural drought • Seismic risks and earthquakes • Rockfalls and landslides • Urban fringe fires • Veldfires • Human epidemics • Livestock epidemics • Air pollution • Water pollution • Soil erosion/land degradation • Power plants • Bridges • Dams • Petrochemical installations • Transport: Roads, air, sea and rail • Marine oil spills • Toxic cargo spills • Radioactivity emissions • Urban formal fire • Urban informal fire • Human immigration to area • Extreme weather events • Unplanned human settlements • Frequency of fires in informal settlements and veldfires • July/Aug 2002: Floods in the Peninsula • Jan 2003: Train disasater • March 2003: Floods in Montagu, Robertson & Swellendam (declared a disaster) •10 Dec 2004: Fire in Kayamandi (±1 000 structures) • 22 Dec 2004: Flooding in 4 districts (R32 million) • 13 Jan 2005: Peninsula Mountain Fire • 14 Jan 2005: Flooding in Mossel Bay (R2.5 million) • 15 Jan 2005: Fire in Joe Slovo (± 3 150 structures) • 20 Jan 2005: Fire in Kayamandi (±300 structures) • Feb 2005: Avian Flu (Ostriches) • March 2005: Drought (13 Municipal areas) • 11 Apr 2005: Floods in Overberg District Municipality • Apr 2005: Porcine reproductive & respiratory syndrome (Pigs) approx. 8 000 affected • July 2005: Swine Fever (Pigs) 1 542 culled • Dec 2005/Feb 2006: Veldfires in Overberg and Cape Winelands District Municipal areas • Jan 2006: Table Mountain fires • Drought • Flooding • Fires (Veld) • Fires (Informal settlements) BACKGROUND

3. HOLISTIC PICTURE: PROVINCIAL

4. HOLISTIC PICTURE: WESTERN CAPE

5. CURRENT CHALLENGES AND REALITIES • The unfunded mandate debate. • Preparation of provincial disaster management plan within the provincial disaster management • framework • Establishing of a Provincial Disaster Management Advisory Forum (PDMAF) by the MEC • responsible for disaster management. • The Provincial Disaster Management Centre to assist the National Centre in developing a • compatible disaster management information system for South Africa • Establishing of municipal disaster management centres by the municipalities • Appointment of a person as head of its municipal disaster management centre by each municipal • council • Building capacity in each municipal centre • Establishing a Municipal Disaster Management Advisory Forum (MDMAF) by the metropole and • each district municipality

6. RECOMMENDATIONS • Confirm the funding recommendations in the National Disaster Management Framework as the • foundation for the provincial funding dispensation: national & provincial frameworks to be • aligned • Activate funding framework to counter the unfunded mandate argument • Disaster risk management and the budgeting thereof is every department’s/municipality’s • responsibility • Increased provincial budgeting over MTEF, based on sound business plans • Concern: Low capacity municipalities with limited revenue base – provincial constitutional • mandate • Western Cape disaster management role-players are funding partners and not beggars • Disasters have NO regard for jurisdictional boundaries • Disaster Management funding recommendations to be reflected in MTEF as soon as possible

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