AG blames poor planning for lack of assistance to KZN flood victims
A lack of coordination, mainly between KZN provincial level and municipal local level, has been identified as part of the cause for assistance failing to reach flood victims.
It's one of the findings by Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke.
Maluleke briefed a joint Ad-Hoc Committee in Parliament on Tuesday.
She said her office has found that in the eThekwini metro, poor planning and slow implementation resulted in destitute victims being left out in the cold much longer than they should have had to endure.
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"In eThekwini there was the Disaster Management Plan was not updated on time.
"Management also did not exercise the necessary oversight on the quality of work that contractors delivered and as a consequence, you had building material that is purchased and left exposed and as a result it gets destructed and as a consequence, the well-being of people was compromised."
