CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 86, the police ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit the sites of devastating floods that have left at least 78 ...

Receding floodwaters that submerged homes days before left the residents of Mthatha, South Africa, helpless. They watched the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 57, a government minister visiting the scene of the disaster said Thursday.

He said the largely rural Eastern Cape province in southeastern South Africa, which is home to around 7.2 million people, only has one rescue helicopter. It came to Mthatha from the city of ...

The number of people killed by flash floods in Mthatha has now risen to 20 ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa visited grieving families after floods in Mthatha killed schoolchildren and destroyed roads, bridges, and homes this week. The government has declared a state of disaster in ...

The city of Mthatha, situated approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles) south of Johannesburg, bore the brunt of the flooding.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — At least seven people have died ... Six people died in flooding in the Eastern Cape city of Mthatha, where houses and cars were left submerged. A seventh body was ...