President Cyril Ramaphosa has postponed a working squawk over with to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to focal point on govt’s intervention within the KwaZulu-Natal flood trouble.

The South African govt has communicated the postponement of the controversy over with, for which President Ramaphosa became once attributable to accelerate on Tuesday, 19 April, to the Govt of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The postponement enables the President to proceed to meet with Ministers on the issue within the flood-ravaged province and to evaluate how the heaps of spheres of govt, in partnership with civil society organisations and communities, are addressing the crisis.

President Ramaphosa acknowledged: “The loss of virtually 400 lives and hundreds of homes, as effectively as the industrial influence and the destruction of infrastructure, calls for all palms on deck.

“As govt, we are standing by the folk of KwaZulu-Natal through the provision of social and materials make stronger to hundreds of households and an big option of companies which agree with been suffering from this catastrophe.

“We worship the cohesion and generosity with which other folks and organisations throughout the nation agree with solution to the support of those whose lives agree with been so tragically disrupted by the floods.

“Now we agree with additionally been touched by the expressions of grief and cohesion, and affords of assist expressed by many international locations around the enviornment.”

Media queries: Tyrone Seale, Acting Spokesperson to the President