At least 120 pupils from Gobisizwe Agricultural School in Mthatha were rushed to hospitals and a local clinic-- one by helicopter -- after suspected mass food poisoning with one child vomiting blood ...

About 131 pupils from the Gobisizwe Agricultural School in Ngqeleni were treated for food poisoning on Wednesday. According ...

A resident looks through the remnants after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, Thursday, June 12, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...

Most of the 131 Gobizizwe Agricultural School pupils who were hospitalised in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape for suspected food ...

A police rescue officer searches for missing people of this week's floods in Mthatha, South Africa, Friday, June 13, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe ...

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane, center stands with a local government official stand in front of a damaged home after flooding in the area, in Mthatha, South Africa, Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

Rescue workers transport a person in a body bag during a rescue operation after floods swept through the area, in Mthatha, South Africa, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hoseya Jubase) JOHANNESBURG ...

MTHATHA, South Africa (AP) — Receding floodwaters that submerged homes days before left the residents of Mthatha, South Africa, helpless. They watched the bodies of their families and neighbors ...

(AP Photo/Hoseya Jubase)ASSOCIATED PRESSRescue workers transport a person in a body bag during a rescue operation after floods swept through the area, in Mthatha, South Africa, Wednesday, June 11 ...

Forensic workers retrieve bodies of a mother and three daughters from inside a one-room house after floods swept through the area in Mthatha, South Africa, on Thursday, June 12, 2025.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 57, a government minister visiting the scene of the disaster said Thursday.