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Image: ReutersPublic Works Minister, Patricia de Lille, says her department willMore than 440 people were killed and hundreds displaced following the recent storm disaster.De Lille, who gave her budget speech in parliament on Tuesday, says more assessments are being conducted to help rebuild damaged infrastructure.

“The total in KwaZulu-Natal has increased to 52 and in the Eastern Cape, there is an extra 20 bridges. That is what we are working on. We have done technical assessments in the Eastern Cape of the 20 bridges. In KwaZulu-Natal, we are starting with the first 18 bridges on 1 June.” “But there is still a lot of work to be done. The rains of the past week have not helped. We are busy with assessments to see how many more bridges we have to add to what we have already got for this current financial year,” explains Minister De Lille.

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You have to ask what happened to the relief funds promised by government to repair the flood damage in KZN last month. The truth is that the politicians haven't had enough time to sort out their cut with contractors.

nickhedley Note the statement ' begin the process' I would have thought that the tenders were already out as the original designs are in record. New designs could be done where inadequacy was found. Let's see how long it takes before actual construction begins

More looting, corruption and tenderpreneurs alert!

EC and KZN are brothers and sisters even in disasters, our siblings suffers the same,siyanithanda eEC

nickhedley 'Start building' Please watch the tender-theft.

She can also take the R20 million for the flag from NathiMthethwaSA department.

Yho! Yho! After the Washing Line, here we should ask Gift of the Givers to take over

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