#5Things: Royal baby news, a South African Super Bowl ad, and more. Updated
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Proudly South African Super Bowl Ad
Although the American Super Bowl might not be as widely supported in South Africa as other sports, some people make a point of looking up the best Super Bowl half-time commercials on YouTube. Among the crop of this year s funniest Super Bowl ads is a Pringles commercial shot in South Africa, with local actors. The ad features two astronauts who fail to draw the attention of Mission Control and a passing ship, whose crews are distracted by constructing Pringles stacks.
Death toll from storm Eloise rises to 21 across southern Africa Reuters 1/28/2021
MAPUTO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The death toll from Storm Eloise has risen to 21 across southern Africa after Mozambique and eSwatini reported a further five and two people killed respectively.
Eloise, at the time a cyclone, slammed into Mozambique s central port city of Beira and surroundings - an area still recovering from the devastation of Cyclone Idai in 2019 - on Saturday. It then weakened to a tropical storm and moved inland to cause heavy rain and flooding across southern Africa.
Homes, crops and infrastructure in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, eSwatini - formerly Swaziland - and South Africa have been destroyed, with tens of thousands of people displaced in Mozambique especially after vast swathes of land were left underwater.