Recently, heavy rains hit a town called Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. The resulting floods killed 49 people across the province, but Mthatha was the worst-hit.

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 floodwater. Senzo Mchunu, the ...

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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 humanitarian organisation has been helping police and other search and rescue teams with recovery operations since parts of the province were battered by torrential downpours. Several more bodies ...

JOHANNESBURG - Some families in the Eastern Cape said they are fast losing hope that their missing relatives will be found ...

Rescue teams continue to find bodies in the aftermath of the Mthatha floods, taking the official death toll to at least 88.

Partly cloudy conditions are expected over southern areas, with isolated rain and showers along the south coast. Elsewhere, ...