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ALTERNATE TEXT PROVIDER INFO: Reuters, APR 12
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BY: REUTERS, APR 12
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INTRO TEXT: Heavy rainfall and mudslides have killed a number of people and destroyed homes and roads in South Africa's coastal Kwazulu-Natal province. David Doyle has more.
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STORY: Homes and roads were swept away by heavy rainfall and mudslides in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province on Tuesday (April 12) in a disaster that has killed dozens.
The local government has said at least 45 people have died, and warned the number could rise.
Among those caught up in the floods, Durban resident Jomba Phiri.
He managed to get his children out in time, but says he's lost everything else.
"I got nowhere to go, I got no house, I got no nothing. There's my family is there by my neighbours, they tried giving us place to sleep last night, we never, we never sleep last night. The situation is very, very bad, I don't know where we going to sleep now."
The eastern coastal province's department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs said disaster management teams were evacuating people in areas that had experienced mudslides and collapsed buildings, and where roads had been swept away.
South Africa's National Defense Force has been asked to provide aerial support where necessary.
Floods around the city of East London in January killed at least 10 people and left hundreds homeless.
Scientists suspect climate change is causing worsening floods and droughts along South Africa's eastern coast.
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