When Zikhona Rengoe saw a huge wave of water heading down the Jukskei River she thought she was safe because she was on the bank -but seconds later the water engulfed her, ripping her three-month-old daughter from her arms.
A 24-year-old mother has told of how she survived raging waters in the Jukskei River in Bramley, Johannesburg, which swept away 15 congregants, including her two children and their grandmother at the weekend.
Chaos erupted on Friday outside the Ndwedwe magistrate’s court where members of the community tried to block the police van transporting a man suspected of stabbing a pupil at her school last month.