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The community centre has been home to about 300 people left homeless by the flooding in KwaZulu-Natal province, which killed at least 430 people, displaced thousands and caused damage estimated at 10 billion rand https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rescuers-hunt-missing-after-south-african-floods-kill-more-than-400-2022-04-17 ($685 million). Many are traumatised or grieving, others feel defeated and unable to start rebuilding their lives, said Nokuthula Shandu, a counsellor with medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF). ....
"The night the floods started, the sand looked like it was boiling from the water, the whole house was moving," said the 35-year-old, who gave up her care job at an old-age home to look after flood survivors. ....