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Police Minister, Bheki Cele has announced that the figure of 448 deaths as a result of the floods in KwaZulu-Natal has been revised to 435.

Last week, the province saw floods that left scores displaced and ravaged homes and infrastructure.Cele was briefing the media from Pretoria on the efforts by the Security Cluster to assist the province on Thursday.

Cele has, however, given the assurance that all hands are on deck as the search and rescue operations continue: “A total of 435 people have died as a result of the floods that ravaged the KwaZulu-Natal province. There was a figure of 448 fatalities which has now been revised to 435. This is a result of autopsies performed on 4 bodies and it was determined that the deaths were murder related as they were found with bullet wounds.

Cele announced that this intervention by the Department would be at no cost: “The Department will be replacing birth certificates, temporary identity certificates and IDs of people affected by the disaster. This service is available only to members of communities who have lost their documents during the disaster. The Department is working with the City of eThekwini and the District Municipality… to identify people who need assistance.

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Anyone to help us reaching at unisa any public figure to help us as we are discriminated to the institutions we are expected to write all these assaignments and exams without learning allowences like how other institutions received their allowences LenkaBulaMustGo

Why is he announcing this? Should he be announcing how many criminals have been arrested and stayed arrested?

They are even cooking disaster death

Seems like Bheki Cele is all over.Does he really know his role an Minister?Minister of police giving death figures is unheard!

We don't trust his numbers he still doesn't know how many people died in Phenix

was there miscount of the dead 😂

What happened to the other 13 who were presumed dead. Did they wake up with Jesus....

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