Scores of people are missing after the floods. [File image]in separate locations around the eThekwini metro, bringing the death toll from last week’s floods to 448.
A short drive further north to Phoenix, and one is met with hopeful families, gathered outside the Phoenix mortuary. Searching for missing family members. “My niece Ntonbikayise Myeza was with my grandmother in the house. The house was washed away and we found our gran down by the ditch with a broken leg. She is currently in hospital. It’s been a week since Ntombikayise went missing so we come here each time we hear that bodies have been found hoping we’ll find her body as well.”