Hundreds of homes had been washed away in the iron-roof informal settlements just outside the country's East London city, especially the Mdantsane township, reports local media.
One of three schoolgirls who left east London early last year to travel to Syria to join DAESH is feared to have been killed in a Russian air strike in Syria.
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