Notice No. 5120

15 August 2024

GG 51052

Department of Co-operative Governance

I, Dr Bongani Elias Sithole, in my capacity as the Head of the National Disaster Management Centre, after having deliberations with various organs of state and the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Disaster Management Centre, and after assessing the magnitude and severity of the impact of the strong winds on 7 and 14 July 2024 , that caused devastating impact reasonably related to strong winds and resulted in death, injury, damage to property, infrastructure and the environment, as well as the disruption of basic services, and after having considered the information received from the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Disaster Management Centre, I hereby give notice that on 29 July 2024, in terms of Section 23(1)(b) of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002) (the Act), I classified this occurrence as a Provincial Disaster.

Emanating from the classification of this occurrence as a Provincial disaster, in terms of section 40 read with section 23 of the Act, the primary responsibility to coordinate and manage this disaster, in terms of existing legislation and contingency arrangements, is designated to the Provincial Executive.

I hereby, in terms of Section 15(2)(aA) of the Act, read with section 23(8), call upon organs of state to further strengthen their support to existing structures to implement contingency arrangements and ensure that measures are put in place to enable the Provincial Executive to effectively provide relief and deal with the effects of this disaster.

Furthermore, all affected organs of state must prepare and submit reports, as required by the Provincial Disaster Management Centre as outlined in section 24(4) - (8) of the Act.

The revocation of the classification is set out in the schedule hereto.

Dr Bongani Elias Sithole

Head: National Disaster Management Centre

Date: 29/07/2024