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Earthquake leaves people fearing for their lives

By Mhleli Mkhize

People in the streets of Durban were shaken with trauma when the 5.3 Magnitude left people evicted out of the buildings yesterday.

This caused a huge shock to everyone leaving businesses suffering one being SARS (South African Revenue Service ) where a women suffered from heart failure and was rushed to hospital . Public this was on the scene suspect that the cause might have been led by the unexpected earthquake.

Police officers assured that no lives were lost on the scene, the social media and geographic channels on DSTV were buzzing with comments from people.

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