News24 | Godongwana allocates almost R1bn to municipalities in 4 provinces for disaster recovery

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has allocated almost R1 billion to boost municipalities’ recovery and infrastructure rehabilitation efforts after natural disasters.

• Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has allocated almost R1 billion to boost municipalities’ recovery and infrastructure rehabilitation efforts after natural disasters.
• The money must be spent by the end of this financial year, which ends in June.
• Godongwana has also injected R661 million in provincial equitable share, comprehensive agricultural support grants, education infrastructure and health facility grants.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has ringfenced almost R1 billion to fund the recovery and rehabilitation of infrastructure damaged by disasters in 2025.

The allocations were as follows:

The money must be spent by the end of the 2025/26 financial year, which ends in June, according to the gazette, which was published on 6 February.

“These allocations must be used for the repair of infrastructure damaged by disasters classified in March 2025. “Expenditure is restricted to projects expressly approved and recorded in the National Disaster Management Centre’s post‑disaster verification assessment reports.”

The gazette also stated that the allocations were subject to the Division of Revenue Act (Act 2 of 2025) (the Act), and the reporting requirements outlined in the act.

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In eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal in February last year, six people were swept away by flash floods and infrastructure was damaged.

In Limpopo in January last year, floods reportedly destroyed more than 412 roads, seven clinics, and 19 bridges, while 14 drowning incidents and six injuries were reported.

In winter last year in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, more than 90 people died in floods.

Meanwhile, Godongwana has also allocated R661m to KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the North West and the Western Cape for their provincial equitable share, comprehensive agricultural support grants, education infrastructure grants, health facility grants, health revitalisation grants and provincial roads and maintenance grants.

eThekwini underspent its neighbourhood development partnership and public transport network grants by close to R680 million last year.