Though the ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has won the South African elections, it has done so with a dwindling support of the popular vote.

Two boys at a Catholic boarding school in Zimbabwe are among the more than 300 people killed in the aftermath of a cyclone that slammed into Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in mid-March.

While a new black middle class has emerged, while the politically connected got rich, some even becoming billionaires, the vast majority of South Africans remain poor.

New president Cyril Ramaphosa has brought hope to South Africa, but he still comes from the party responsible for the disastrous reign of Jacob Zuma.

"It is you rich people who have finished the water, and now you want us to share the consequences."

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomed the resignation as “long overdue.”