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President Cyril Ramaphosa says government has plans in place to assist municipalities to deal with the impact of natural disasters caused by the effects of climate change.
Ramaphosa was in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Friday to assess the extent of the damage caused by the recent floods.
He labelled the disaster as being the result of climate change.
This week alone, 10 people were killed in the Eastern Cape floods, while 12 people lost their lives after a tornado ripped through Tongaat and Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal.
In Cape Town, over 2 000 people have been displaced by heavy rain that caused localised flooding.
Ramaphosa said the challenge will be to get funds to cover the costs of the damage, which is said to climb to around R6 billion in the Eastern Cape.
"Yes, there is a plan, a plan that is maturing and it is maturing out of the experiences that we are garnering as we are dealing with the disasters that we have.
"And it's a plan that is going to be overarching, that is also going to look at the financing part of it, because the damage here almost equates to about six billion rand when we actually compute the various places that have been damaged.
"That's a lot of money, a lot of money that comes in budget periods, which we don't immediately have. So, it's money that we will have to scrounge around to find, because we've got to respond to repairing people's lives, people's livelihoods," added Ramaphosa.
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