KZNFloods | 'If there is a friend or family member that you haven't seen in the past two days, please come and assist us at these two mortuaries.'
This is according to KZN's acting premier Sihle Zikalala, who said on Thursday that the number was close to 70 and that a confirmed figure would be released later in the day.
Cogta MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube told journalists on Tuesday that massive damage had been"inflicted on public and private infrastructure".On Wednesday, search and rescue teams recovered the bodies of 77-year-old Wendy Conde, who went missing following the floods on Monday, and an unidentified man in his twenties from the Umtentweni River.Search and rescue members made the second recovery in an underground storm water drain.
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