South African Towns Are Falling Apart:
South African Towns Are Falling Apart:
Trash heaps line the potholed streets of Edenville in central South Africa, where residents complain that municipal services have ground to a near halt, crime is rampant and jobs are scarce. It's a familiar story in scores of other rural towns driven to a state of near collapse by years of mismanagement, graft and declining revenue as companies gravitate toward cities with better services and transportation links.
Rachel Saunders: Second missing botanist’s body identified:
South African police have identified the body of a British botanist kidnapped with her husband in a case with suspected links to the Islamic State group . The pair, who owned a seed business in Cape Town, were on a trip looking for rare seeds in KwaZulu-Natal province when they were taken.
UPDATE 4-Wage protests lead to South African power outages:
South Africa's struggling state utility Eskom started controlled electricity outages on Thursday, after trade union pay protests at its power plants prevented it meeting demand. The last time there were controlled power outages in Africa's most industrialized economy, in 2015, economic output suffered.
South African police kill man after fatal mosque attack:
An investigator attends to the gates of a mosque in Malmesbury, near Cape Town, South Africa Thursday June 14 2018. South African police say a man with a knife fatally stabbed two people and wounded several others at a mosque near Cape Town before police shot and killed the attacker.
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