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

BACKGROUND 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)

HOLISTIC PICTURE: PROVINCIAL Province DM Centre established Fully functional Head of Centre appointed Forums established DM Plans finalised Western Cape In process

HOLISTIC PICTURE: WESTERN CAPE Municipality DM Centre established Fully functional Head of Centre appointed Forums established DM Plans finalised City of Cape Town Interim centre In process West Coast Cape Winelands Overberg Eden Central Karoo

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

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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