KwaZulu-Natal police diver Busisiwe Mjwara has been hailed as a selfless leader and an officer who served her community with diligence.

Nineteen others, including other pupils were injured in the crash.

With an honours degree in gender studies, Gibson Nzimande pulls his trolley with an oversized white bag filled with recyclables through the oncoming Sandton traffic, up a steep hill. This is his story.

Messages of condolences are streaming in for the family of Thembi Mthembu who died at the age of 51.

Several relief organisations, community groups and NGOs are hard at work on the ground in eThekwini and surrounds where homes have been washed away and parts of roads have been destroyed.

She passed away in a Pretoria hospital on Thursday morning.

Residents are evacuating their homes, trying to salvage what they can while many families are mourning the deaths of their loved ones with the death toll already at 306.

Last year more than 230 people died on the roads during the Easter season.

Fifty-nine people have died in the disaster while homes, businesses, roads, bridges as well electricity and water infrastructure have been damaged or destroyed.

The City of eThekwini and surrounding areas have been lashed by heavy rains that have washed away bridges and rendered some roads unusable. At least 59 people have lost their lives in the disaster but many are still missing.

Eyewitness News has exposed how criminals have been stealing and recycling tombstones before selling them off to newly bereaved families.

Buildings have collapsed, roads have been swept away, houses are buried beneath mudslides and emergency services have spent the night rescuing and evacuating people from their homes.

Eyewitness News went undercover to expose how opportunists and drug addicts have been vandalising graves to make a quick buck.

In his weekly newsletter on Monday morning, Ramaphosa has compared these anti-foreigners groups to the oppressors who operated apartheid.

In a three-part series focusing on cemeteries, we interrogate the appalling state of where our loved ones are laid to rest.

More than 50 illegal migrants have been arrested in the last few days, half of whom were arrested on Thursday night.

An extra 16 police vehicles have now also arrived in the community to assist specialised teams to make arrests and deal with the crime in the area.

The South African Weather Service is warning that temperatures will drop significantly from Friday.