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The flood in Mozambique and Malawi caused by the cyclone Idai may have cost the lives of more than a thousand people and destroyed the lives of more than 2.6 million people.

Customs in Hong Kong have intercepted a record rhino horn with a weight of 40 kilos. The party came from Johannesburg (South Africa) and was en route to Vietnam.

At least three pupils were killed because a walking passage collapsed at a secondary school in South Africa. Twenty others were injured.

South African justice has issued an arrest warrant against the wife of former Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, 53-year-old Grace Mugabe. The order comes from a...

36 pupils are pregnant at a secondary school in the northeast of South Africa. The girls are between fourteen and eighteen years old, says spokesman Neil Shikhwambana of the Ministry of Health of Limpopo province.

Thousands of lovers of comic books, science fiction and fantasy have come to the first African edition of Comic Con. The three-day event in Johannesburg is completely sold out, the organization reports. Visitors come from countries such as Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.

The wife and three-year-old son of a British scientist fight for their lives after being attacked by a giraffe. Reportedly, the animal wanted to protect her young.

A wounded baby rhinoceros, which watched over his dead mother, was saved by conservationists in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The white rhino was killed by poachers who were out on her horns, and injured her baby during the struggle.

The South African government wants clarification about a tweet from Donald Trump. The American president stated on Twitter that he had instructed his Minister of Foreign Affairs to properly review the 'seizures and expropriations of land and farms and the large-scale killing of farmers' in that country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited his American counterpart Donald Trump to visit Moscow. The Russian leader said at a top of emerging economies (BRICS countries) in South Africa also to be willing to travel to Washington for consultation.

The former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has returned to court on Friday. The court in Pietermaritzburg decided to adjourn the corruption case until 30 November.

Eleven people were killed when a group of unknown men in South Africa opened fire on a taxi van. Four people were injured. The taxi was on the way back from KwaZulu-Natal to Johannesburg when the men jumped out of the bushes and started shooting.

The French national football team is an example for the world. This is what the American ex-president Barack Obama said in a speech in South Africa. Obama, who served as President from 2009 to 2017, made a speech at a memorial service of former South African leader Nelson Mandela.

An American 'trophy hunter' goes viral on social media after she places photos of a giraffe shot on social media, accompanied by commentary that makes nature conservation fierce.

Of the thirteen miners who were trapped in a mine in South Africa after a collapse, four died.

Due to the collapse of a corridor, thirteen South African miners got stuck underground on Thursday. The cause was a slight earthquake. According to the management of the Masakhane gold mine, west of Johannesburg, rescue workers have been able to make contact with three of them.

South African prosecutors are going to sue the son of former president Jacob Zuma for a fatal traffic accident. Duduzane Zuma crashed in 2014 with his Porsche 911 on a taxi van. As a result, a woman was killed and two people were seriously injured.

In South Africa, thousands of people gathered to attend the state funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The coffin, covered with the national flag, was shown in the football stadium of Soweto, a township in the west of Johannesburg and then a breeding ground for resistance.

Thousands of South Africans commemorated Winnie Madikizela-Mandela during a mourning ceremony in Johannesburg. Relatives, politicians, activists and fans proved their last honors with speeches and singing and praised her decades of struggle against the apartheid system.

Winnie Mandela has passed away. The ex-wife of Nelson Mandela was 81 years old.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has to appear before the judge on April 6. The authorities prosecute him for corruption. The lawyer of Zuma confirmed on Monday that he had received a summons for his client.

The retired archbishop Desmond Tutu stops as an ambassador for Oxfam. The 86-year-old South African clergyman decided to do so because the British aid organization got involved in a sex scandal. Employees of Oxfam hired young prostitutes in Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010.

Cyril Ramaphosa will be elected by the parliament of South Africa as the new president of the country. That says the ANC party champion Jackson Mthembu. Ramaphosa was already the vice president of the country.

Cyril Ramaphosa played a crucial role in the transition period after the apartheid regime in South Africa and, according to Nelson Mandela, was 'the architect of present-day South Africa.' The 65-year-old president of the ANC is the most obvious candidate for President from South Africa now Zuma has resigned.

Jacob Zuma is the most controversial and colorful president who knew South Africa in recent history. The former anti-apartheid fighter got entangled in a series of scandals, which many other politicians would have had the head, but Zuma held it- until Wednesday- more than eight years as head of state.

The South African government party ANC has given President Jacob Zuma an ultimatum. He has to leave at the latest on Tuesday, otherwise he will have a deposition procedure in parliament. That news news site news24 based on sources around the party.

The South African government party ANC (African National Congress) will demand that President Jacob Zuma step down. The party top decided to release him from his position during a thirteen-hour marathon meeting, a high party source said.

The South African government party ANC has given President Jacob Zuma 48 hours to resign as head of state. Otherwise he will be relieved of his function. The state television channel SABC has announced this on Monday night.

The summit of the South African government party ANC (African National Congress) meets Monday to talk about President Jacob Zuma, who was controversial because of corruption scandals (75). The party reported on Sunday that there is a special meeting of the party management. That can instruct the president to resign.

The South African president Jacob Zuma refuses to resign. He was replaced in December as leader of the African National Congress (ANC) after allegations of corruption. Despite great pressure, he does not want to resign as president.