KZN Floods | Finding closure without a body

DURBAN - Hundreds of people lost their lives in KwaZulu-Natal when the province witnessed the worst floods.

Some bodies were never recovered and graves were uprooted.

Culturally, how does one find closure when a body is not recovered?

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Cultural expert Sihawu Ngubane from the University of KwaZulu-Natal says most families have not been able to find closure because some bodies were not recovered. 

"It is an African philosophy that the person who dies in an accident or dies through a weapon, the spirit of that person needs to be brought home and when the spirit has been brought home, there is a belief that he is joining the family ancestry line and that is when the closure can happen," he said.

"But in this case, it is quite a difficult one because some of these bodies have not been recovered so people don't even know the location of where they disappeared to so it is quite difficult."