Undertakers clad in canary-yellow protective suits lowered the coffin into the cold soil as a mechanical digger waited nearby to smother the grave. Still numbed by their loss, a family watched the ...

EAST LONDON, South Africa — More than a thousand grieving family and community members are attending the funeral in South Africa's East London for 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Behind Monageng Legae's funeral parlour in the South African township of Soweto sits a refrigerated shipping container made to store chilled goods. Now it stores bodies.

ALEXANDRA, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 15: Sello Moahludi (far right) a resident of Alexandra township watches the funeral of former South African president Nelson Mandela on television with ...

The funerals—or homegoing celebrations, as they’re called in many Black communities—of Aretha Franklin and hip-hop artist Nipsey Hussle garnered millions of views from people across the globe on live ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A funeral service is underway in Cape Town, South Africa, for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning equality activist who was revered in Africa for ...

Undertakers clad in canary-yellow protective suits lowered the coffin into the cold soil as a mechanical digger waited nearby to smother the grave. They were barred from tossing a handful of soil or a ...