The District has delayed the construction of a Disaster Management Centre as required by the Disaster Management Act of 2002. The reason for delays is funding as cost estimations of R65 million were conducted two years earlier but funding challenges persist. Disaster Management is a function of the District and therefore as the local municipalities were victims of the recent floods the District Municipality was expected to coordinate efforts to mitigate to minimise the damage, rescue victims as well as rehabilitation of infrastructure post facto. In the absence of a functional Disaster Management Centre with adequate resources, clearly the support to disaster struck areas would have been limited.