Issued by: Government Communications (GCIS)
Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa, the Minister responsible for Disaster Management, has called an urgent meeting of the Inter Ministerial Committee on Disaster Management (IMC) to discuss the tornado which killed many people in Umtata, as the floods that caused deaths in Mpumalanga and injury and destruction in the Western Cape.
The IMC meeting of which Minister Moosa is the chair, will now meet in Pretoria at 10:30 on Friday, 18 December 1998.
A media conference will be held at
12:30 in (Please note the new time for the media conference) Room 159, East Wing/ Union Buildings immediately after the IMC meeting.
Issued by the Ministry for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development on 16 December 1998.
Contact: Mr, Peet Stopforth on: 082 808 9878 or Fred Barron 082 4567 545