CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The death toll in floods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province has risen to 86, the police minister said Saturday as rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa traveled to the town of Mthatha in Eastern Cape province, where the floods hit hardest when they ...

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The death toll included six high school students who were washed away when their school bus was caught in floodwaters on ...

The death toll in floods in one of South Africa’s poorest provinces rose to at least 78 on Thursday as a top official said ...

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