Then her elder son, Zamani, 23, got a call on Thursday from some other townspeople who had discovered a body by the river.... She has lost hope of finding her alive in her township by a river on the outskirts of Durban, the port city at the epicentre of the floods that have upended the lives of 40, 000 people.... " I feel numb, blank and still empty," she told Reuters at the wreckage of her home which had collapsed into a pile of rubble falling into a gash in the earth....