CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 86, the police minister said Saturday as rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the floodwater.

South Africa's rand, stocks and government bonds traded lower on Friday, snapping weeks of gains as Israeli military strikes on Iran drove investors away from riskier assets and toward safe havens, analysts said.

South Africa's players show their mettle to ignore sledges from Australia's players as they go from chokers to World Test champions at Lord's.

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.

Some observers believe the movement to resettle Afrikaner farmers in America may fade from the Trump administration’s priorities.

South Africa’s batting hero Aiden Markram has taken longer than expected to deliver on his promise, but a match-winning century against Australia in the World Test Championship final is being hailed as the biggest in the country’s cricketing history.

South Africa will lead the next refunding exercise for the Global Fund, raising money for the international partnership fighting AIDS after the US cut healthcare support to the continent.

It has been a magnificent week for Test cricket at Lord’s, and huge congratulations to South Africa for a remarkable victory.

David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ‘happened’ and yet all was contained.”

Foreign investors have pulled $3.7 billion out of South African equities since October in the longest such streak of outflows in five years, a report showed, as the continent's biggest equity market struggles to attract international portfolio flows.