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Solomon Shandu and his colleague Simphiwe Cele went missing last Saturday night when their car was swept away by KwaZulu-Natal storms.

The bodies of two eThekwini Municipality employees, who were washed away during the recent floods, have been found.

Shandu and his colleague, Simphiwe Cele, both local municipal workers, went missing while they were on their way back home from a funeral in Harrismith on Saturday night.

Solomon Shandu and Simphiwe Cele were on their way back home from a colleague’s funeral in Harrismith on Saturday night, when their car was swept away as they were trying to cross the swollen river.

The police’s Search and Rescue Unit said they discovered 52-year-old Solomon Shandu and 56-year-old Simphiwe Cele on Thursday afternoon.

Solomon Shandu and Simphiwe Cele's bodies were recovered from the Umdloti River a considerable distance from where their car was retrieved. 

The search for two eThekwini Metro employees, who are believed to have drowned, had to be suspended on Tuesday afternoon.

Just as the province was recovering from last months deadly floods, it is now suffering another setback from inclement weather.

The search is on for two eThekwini Municipal employees who are believed to have drowned on Saturday afternoon.