A truck breakdown operator prepares to remove a shipping container from the N2 following floods which wreaked havoc in KwaZulu-Natal on 12 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)
A wastepicker at the beach at sunrise collects aluminium cans on 13 April 2022 following heavy rainfall and flooding. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)
A resident stands on the N3 highway and watches the destruction as shipping containers lay strewn alongside the R102 on 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)
People stand on a bridge and watch the removal of shipping containers along the N3 highway in KwaZulu-Natal following heavy rains, flooding and mudslides on 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE. The body of a baby, which washed up on Ispingo Beach after heavy flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, is covered with a jersey. 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) An image taken from beneath a bridge that was washed away on the Griffiths Mxenge Highway near Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal after flooding on 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) A battered shipping container and directional sign board on the N3 highway in KwaZulu-Natal on 13 April 2022 following heavy rain in the province. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) A washed-up van close to Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, on 13 April 2022 following one of the deadliest floods in the province that has killed hundreds of people. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)
A truck breakdown operator prepares to remove a shipping container from the N2 following floods which wreaked havoc in KwaZulu-Natal on 12 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed) 
/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC4825.jpg "A resident stands on the N3 highway and watches the destruction as shipping containers lay strewn alongside the R102 on 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)")
/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC4828.jpg "People stand on a bridge and watch the removal of shipping containers along the N3 highway in KwaZulu-Natal following heavy rains, flooding and mudslides on 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)")
/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC4963.jpg "WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE. The body of a baby, which washed up on Ispingo Beach after heavy flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, is covered with a jersey. 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)")
/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC5081.jpg "An image taken from beneath a bridge that was washed away on the Griffiths Mxenge Highway near Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal after flooding on 13 April 2022. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)")
/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC5141.jpg "A battered shipping container and directional sign board on the N3 highway in KwaZulu-Natal on 13 April 2022 following heavy rain in the province. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)")
/file/dailymaverick/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC5293.jpg "A washed-up van close to Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, on 13 April 2022 following one of the deadliest floods in the province that has killed hundreds of people. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)")