South Africa's police minister says the death toll in floods in the Eastern Cape province now stands at 86. Rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the floodwater on Saturday, four days after

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.

The death toll from the devastating floods in South Africa s Eastern Cape Province has climbed to 86, a senior government official