Vodacom Deleted my mobile number

My contract expired yesterday and was informed by one of Vodacom's agents that my number will be migrated to prepaid. Today my numbers stopped working and asked Vodacom what had happened and they told me my number has been deleted. This is a huge inconvenience as I am away from home and have only used one mobile number and I am getting the impression that once you move from contract to prepaid Vodacom will cut you <br> Now I have no way of communicating as I trusted they service and only kept this mobile number <br> <br>