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Med~Evac joined the search for the vehicle that washed away off the low bridge near fiddlewood farm in Margate during the flood. It was located this morning approximately 5km away near the freeway with 3 occupants still inside the vehicle. Unfortunately the occupants did not survive. (Med-Evac)
MARGATE FLOODS

Flood warning: Heavy rains forecast for Durban and South Coast

Three people were washed away in a vehicle and died in the Margate floods overnight

  • Lyse Comins
2 min read
eNkanini informal settlment resident, Thulisile Ntobela (31) carries donated food in Durban, on April 22, 2022. Ntobela lost her home after the floods caused a mudslide that destroyed the shack where she was living. – First it was Covid, then riots and now floods: KwaZulu-Natal (NZN) province, South Africa’s gateway to the Indian Ocean, is reeling from a unprecedented string of disasters. (Guillem Sartorio/AFP via Getty Images)
DURBAN FLOODS

OPINION | eThekwini refugees ordered back to flood-prone, damaged transit camp

Many of the flood victims were former residents of Mega Village informal settlement, on the banks of the Umlaas Canal, who lost everything in the floods of 2019

  • Vanessa Burger
6 min read