KZN's weather warning bumped up to level 4

The South African Weather Service says thunderstorms and heavy rains are expected over the western parts of the province.

Forecaster Thandiwe Gumede says disruptive rain is also expected over the south-eastern parts, which could lead to flooding.

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"That includes areas like Margate, Port Shepstone, Durban, Ilembe District - areas like Ndwedwe, Maphumulo, as well as other surrounding areas. Moving into the interior, it will touch areas like Pietermaritzburg and Richmond, as well as the eastern parts of the Umgungundlovu District. That is expected to continue from this afternoon until this evening." 

Gumede says the rain will subside on Tuesday.

"For tomorrow, chances of rain decrease to 60% over the western parts of KZN and only a 30 percent chance over the eastern parts of KZN. We do not have any alerts for tomorrow." 

Eskom says over 1 500 households across KZN have been left without power as a result of the weather.

"It is fairly evenly spread throughout the province so there is nothing concentrating in one specific area or not. There are small pockets of a high number of faults so Paulpietersburg, Umzimkulu, Ulundi, and Nkandla are our highest numbers at the moment. They are sitting close to around 100 each," says the utility's Network Operations and Maintenance Manager, Harish Raghnandan. 

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Raghnandan says technicians are out on the ground.

"The repairs of on the way. The problem is that faults are coming in as we are repairing them so are complete ETR is quite difficult at this stage, but we are looking at if it stays the way it is; we should be down to a manageable number in about two days' time."