. The department indicated that a team of service providers was appointed to conduct an assessment in all areas affected by disasters. The department undertook to make the report, which will indicate the number of houses partially destroyed and those that were completely destroyed, available to the Committee at a later stage. . The department informed the delegation that the province's disaster backlog dated back to 2008 and that those figures continued to increase as disasters continued to hit the province. More than R133 million had been allocated to deal with disasters.