Cyclone Leon-Eline

In February 2000, tropical Cyclone Leon-Eline resulted in a storm so severe that the horses of Mashatu broke out of their enclosure and roamed wild and free for days before returning. Zulu was the only one that did not return. He was thought to be lost to the scourges of the Bushveld. Years pass before Zulu ...

The rainy season in Mozambique runs from November to April. History of cyclones: 2000: Cyclone Leon-Eline was the longest-lived Indian Ocean tropical cyclone on record, traveling over 11,000 km during its 29-day duration. It formed on the 1st of February 2000, in the Australian basin as Tropical Cyclone ...

Some 750 kilometres to the south of the Cyclone Leon-Eline's epicentre, a young boy in KwaZulu-Natal was beginning to understand the full extent of nature's power, and the unpredictability of its brutality. The storm only brushed over the northern and eastern parts of South Africa as it wreaked havoc in ...