"Not again," said 67-year-old Alice Mbunjana, whose home and possessions were destroyed in Thursday's flash flood in Soweto.

Mbunjana opened a can of fish in her kitchen, the floor still caked with mud and debris left behind after the water had subsided.

Entering her home, to the left is a room filled with muddy shoes and clothes, the floor caked with water thickened by sand and grass.

To the right, furniture spared from destruction lay piled against the wall. Mbunjana makes her way into a bedroom, off to the right.

"This is where the water was," she says pointing to a thick dark brown watermark, high up on the bedroom wall along its length.

A water soaked bed with blankets still dripping stands in the centre of the bedroom.

"We were more scared for the children, so we put them on the wardrobe," Mbunjana said.

She lives in the Soweto home with 41 others, most family, children and grandchildren.

Her granddaughter Buhle, arrived home from school shortly before the rain began to lash down on Thursday.

"I didn't want to go to school today, my uniform was ruined," said Buhle.

She and her mother Miriam, were trying to clean the muddy floors and salvage some of the furniture in the home.

"We really just need blankets," said Miriam.

"We will try and dry everything else, but we need to sleep tonight," she said.

The family's fridge, stove, washing machine and hi fi, was destroyed.

"I don't think these things will work again," said Mbunjana, pointing at the appliances.

The Mbunjana family was one of many affected by the flash floods, which left two girls aged six and 15 dead, 40 people injured, and three others missing, including a 20-day-old baby.

Earlier, ANC president Jacob Zuma visited a fire station in White City, as part of his visit to sites ravaged by flash floods.

Zuma was met by Gauteng premier Paul Mashatile and a host of emergency services and metro police personnel. Mashatile commended emergency services for their swift action in dealing with the flash floods.