See more of our coverage in your search results. JOHANNESBURG — Mandla Maseko, a South African man who had won the opportunity to become the first black African to go into space, has died in a ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mandla Maseko, a South African man who had won the opportunity to become the first black African to go into space, has died in a motorcycle crash. He was 30. Maseko was killed in ...

Former colleagues of Mandla “Space Boy” Maseko carry his coffin during his funeral service at St Barnabas Parish Church in Mabopane on Saturday. Friends, family and colleagues of the late Mandla ...

Tributes have been paid to a South African man who was training to become the first black African to go to space after he died in a motorbike crash. Mandla Maseko, 30, beat one million other ...

Six years ago, 30-year-old Mandla Maseko beat a million contenders to win a spot on the Axe Apollo Space Academy venture. In 2015, he spent a week training at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. His ...

Tributes have poured in from social media at the news of the untimely passing of Mandla Maseko who would have been the first black African to travel to space. Popularly known as Afronaut and Spaceboy, ...

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