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Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two ...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit the sites of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country.
Floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape have claimed 101 lives, including a 12-month-old baby, as search teams continue to look ...
Receding floodwaters that submerged homes days before left the residents of Mthatha, South Africa, helpless. They watched the ...
Dozens of people were killed in South Africa, including several children whose school bus was swept away by flash floods, as unusually heavy rain, snow and wind pummeled parts of the country’s Eastern ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa said the flooding around the town of Mthatha in southeastern South Africa was “a real disaster and a catastrophe when we ...
Floods in South Africa kill dozens, toll likely to rise Search and rescue operations would continue for a third day on Thursday. ... in Mthatha, South Africa, Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
A relative reacts as bodies of her sister and three daughters were retrieved from inside a one room house, after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, Thursday, June 12, 2025.
A police rescue officer searches for missing people of this week’s floods in Mthatha, South Africa, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ...
A resident looks through the remnants after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, Thursday, June 12, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...
Forensic workers retrieve bodies of a mother and three daughters inside a one room house after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ...