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Britain's Prince William sails off with volunteers of the National Sea Rescue Initiative, at Simon's Town harbour nearCape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, Pool)

Prince William wraps up his South Africa trip with visit that reminded him of his rescue pilot days

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William walks up Signal Hill with Park Manager for Table Mountain National Park Megan Taplin, right, and Australian conservationist and Earthshot Prize global ambassador Robert Irwin, left, in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, Pool)

Prince William promotes conservation in South Africa, walks on trails near Table Mountain

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Nomzamo Mbatha, left, the host of Earthshot Week, takes a selfie with Britain's Prince William and a group of young people at the Earthshot Prize Climate Leaders Youth Programme at Rooftop on Bree in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday Nov. 4, 2024. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool Photo via AP)

Prince William meets young environmentalists and plays rugby on first day of South Africa visit

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William, speaks to a group of young people, with Table Mountain in the background at the Earthshot Prize Climate Leaders Youth Programme at Rooftop on Bree in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday Nov. 4, 2024. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool Photo via AP)

Prince William puts climate in the focus of his visit to South Africa

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

A Cape fur seal on Seal Island near Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Scientists in South Africa say they have identified the first known outbreak of rabies in seals

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Water flows through Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday July 11, 2024. The South African city of Cape Town and surrounding areas have been hit by more storms, ripping roofs off houses and causing widespread flooding. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

6 firefighters have died battling a bushfire in South Africa after storms batter other areas

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Waves break over Sea Point's promenade in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, July 8, 2024. City authorities say nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements around the city have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people with multiple cold fronts expected until at least Friday. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Nearly 1,000 homes in Cape Town destroyed by storms as city braces for a week of bad weather

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa raises his hand as he is sworn is as a member of Parliament ahead of an expected vote by lawmakers to decide if he is reelected as leader of the country in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa set for reelection after dramatic last-minute coalition deal

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Rescue personnel search the site of a building collapse in George, South Africa, Thursday, May 9, 2024. Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in the coastal city have not brought out more survivors in the past 24 hours. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Hope fades for dozens missing days after South Africa building collapse as death toll rises to 12

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE -An open-air double decker sightseeing bus stops on the slopes of Table Mountain, overlooking the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Friday March, 20, 2020. Authorities in Cape Town launched an investigation after a foul stench swept over the South African city. City officials inspected sewage facilities for leaks on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, and an environmental health team was activated before the source of the smell was discovered: A ship docked in the harbor carrying 19,000 live cattle from Brazil to Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

A ship carrying 19,000 cattle caused a big stink in the South African city of Cape Town

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Khoisan protesters surround King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the Iziko Slave Lodge museum in Cape Town during their state visit to South Africa Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. The king and queen of the Netherlands were confronted by angry protesters in South Africa on a visit Friday to a monument that traces part of their country's involvement in slavery as a colonial power 300 years ago. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Dutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africa

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

The bodies of two South Africa Navy personal lay covered after being recovered from the sea at Kommetjie, ear Cape own, South Africa, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said that two SA Navy divers were dead and five were rescued at sea just off the coast of Kommetjie. (AP Photo/Halden Krog)

3 South Africa navy personnel die after swept off a submarine deck. 4 soldiers killed in road crash

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

A burnt out bus stands on a freeway on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2023. Two people were fatally shot on a fifth day of violent protests in sparked by a dispute last week between minibus taxi drivers and authorities. The unrest on the outskirts of South Africa’s second-largest city follows an announcement last Thursday of a weeklong strike by minubus taxi drivers angered at what they call heavy-handed tactics by police and city authorities. (AP Photo)

British man among at least 5 people killed in a week of violent protests in Cape Town

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin answers journalists' questions about the grain deal in Moscow, Russia, on July 13, 2023. Putin said that the Wagner private military company "simply doesn't exist" as a legal entity, in comments adding to the series of often bizarre twists that have followed the group's abortive revolt last month — the most serious threat to Putin's 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn’t want to have to arrest him

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gestures while speaking during a joint news conference with Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources of Mozambique Carlos Alberto Fortes Mesquita following their talks in Maputo capital city of Mozambique, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia, China foreign ministers set for BRICS meet in South Africa with war in Ukraine on agenda

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the Business Russia organisation at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 26, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Possible Putin trip in spotlight as Russia, China foreign ministers set for meeting in South Africa

By Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, right, during a plenary session at the Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia on Oct. 24, 2019. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, has accused South Africa of providing weapons to Russia saying the U.S. government was certain that weapons were loaded onto a cargo ship that docked secretly at a naval base near the city of Cape Town for three days in December. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

A side skirmish in Russia-Ukraine war flares up in South Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the African National Congress national conference in Johannesburg on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. The conference will elect the party's leadership and adopt key policies for governing the country. President Cyril Ramaphosa is seeking reelection as the party's leader at the national conference which is held every five years and is the ANC's highest decision-making body. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) **FILE**

South Africa’s Ramaphosa prepares for headwinds in State of the Nation address

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, March 21, 2003. Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the age of 90, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist, dies at 90

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Former President and leader of the National Party F.W. de Klerk, discusses his resignation, below a mural of the new South African flag, at a National Party Caucus meeting in Cape Town, Aug. 26 1997. F.W. de Klerk, who oversaw the end of South Africa's country’s White minority rule, has died at 85 it was announced Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Sasa Kralj, File)

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president, dies

By Andrew Meldrum and Cara Anna - Associated Press