Province must urgently address flood damage

25 October 2012

LOSS of life and infrastructure destruction by flooding has hit our province hard during the past weeks ("Counting flood cost", October 23). Millions of rands in damages were caused to the province's road infrastructure. An urgent meeting is needed for department officials to brief the roads and public works portfolio committee about the short and long term plan to normalise the situation.

Our economy in the Eastern Cape could be seriously damaged and jobs could be lost as a result of these infrastructure collapses. Road infrastructure is like the veins in our bodies and therefore we need to take good care of it.

I hope politicians will react swiftly, like the citizens of our province who assisted each other, so that we are not faced with a situation such as in the past when there were floods a few years ago and we are still to this day waiting for a budget to repair the damage to our roads.

Pine Pienaar, DA MPL, Bhisho

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Report Abuse Author: Stefano Date: 26 October 2012 20:23

Millions for soccer, but not a cent for roads... The 'leadership' work very hard at making it seem like this city is world class and up to hosting big events, when in reality, that thin veneer hides the rut our home has become. It has taken some time and a lot of rain to wash that all away and expose the utter collapse this city has been driven to by greedy, incompetent cadres.

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AREA SUBMERGED: Grant Duncan-Smith took this picture of the flooded area around the Port Elizabeth Airport after the heavy rains of the past week

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