Despite cleaning-up operations and repairs to road infrastructure in South Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal following devastating floods two weeks ago, 62 schools are still not accessible. The Department of Education in the province says it will provide about 100 mobile classrooms to the affected schools.

It says this is a short-term solution as it rebuilds partially-damaged schools and the Department of Transport repairs and rebuilds access routes.

School children continue to feel the effects of the deadly floods, of the more than 430 people who died in the province, 64 were learners, with about 630 schools having been affected, while 124 suffered serious damage.

Learner transport in many areas is unable to reach some of the schools due to collapsed infrastructure. The hardest hit areas are north of Durban – including Inanda and Molweni in the eThekwini Municipality.

Education officer Nkosinathi Ngcobo says, "We are rolling out a program of rehabilitation on our schools infrastructure, we have just signed off with providers who are going to be erecting mobile classrooms in schools that were partially damaged. In the sense that some structure in the schools were working but some had been damaged such that they are not usable.”

(With input from agencies)