South Africa: Heightened Efforts to Assist Flood Victims

27 January 2011

Pretoria — Government has stepped up interventions to assist areas affected by floods and minimise the loss of life.

The Ministry for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), which is chair of the Inter-Ministerial Committee tasked with dealing with the floods, has "tightened its grip on floods with various coordination structures, across the country."

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