Our journalist's near death experience while crossing the raging Mzinyathi River | The Mercury

Durban - If there had there been many people there, it would have been the most humiliating day of my life - it was certainly the most dangerous thus far.

But in the seconds that I found my life under serious threat, the humiliation never received a thought as I focused on just staying alive.After surviving the near drowning, further humiliation was heaped on me as I had to do an interview at the home of the local induna in my boxer shorts because my pants had been washed away by the river.

TheMercurySA At least some one experienced how dangerous it is to cross a raging river, while school kids has to do it annually to get to school and for some citizens to get drinking,cooking and washing water 😠😱

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