KZN schools close early due to heavy rains
Schools across KZN have been instructed to send pupils home early today due to the heavy rains.
The provincial education department issued the notice to immediately close schools amid two weather warnings.
An Orange level 5 warning for disruptive rainfall is in place in the coastal and northern parts of KZN.
The weather service says there could be possible flooding of roads and settlements, damage to mud-based houses and displacement of communities.
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For the western and southern interior, a Yellow Level 2 alert has been issued.
There's been carnage on some KZN roads since Wednesday morning, with multiple accidents reported.
Some 20 schoolchildren were injured when the minibus they were in overturned in Phoenix, ejecting some of them.
"Transport operators that are transporting our learners, more especially 'oMalume' and privately arranged transport by parents, need to be sensitive to the fact that they are carrying learners so that their driving must be in accordance to that,” says KZN Education spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi.
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