Details of municipal recovery grant to be made public next week

ByNkhensani Chauke

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa is set to formally announce the disbursement of the Municipal Disaster Response and the Disaster Recovery Grant to provinces and municipalities across the country on Monday.

The allocations will support rapid relief and recovery measures in communities impacted by the latest weather disasters.

The intervention comes in as a result of a series of disruptive incidents which are formally recognised and declared as national disasters, in line with Section 23(3) of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No.57 of 2002). They include the recent destructive floods in the Eastern Cape.

The money is being released under Section 25(3)(a) of the Division Revenue Act, 2023 (Act No.5 of 2023), as amended by the Division of Revenue Amendment Act, 2023(Act No. 24 of 2023).

“The announcement forms part of government’s ongoing efforts to ensure an adequate and timely response to the