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A truck crashes into several minibus taxis at an intersection in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa, killing five people and injuring nine others.
2023-01-12

Local human rights activists in Uganda petition President Yoweri Museveni not to sign a controversial bill against gay sex into law as it could increase discrimination and hate crimes and incite violence against gay men. The bill further criminalizes homosexuality by punishing "penetration of another person’s anus" with up to 10 years' imprisonment. Richard Lusimbo, a 34-year-old activist, says that even people suspected of being gay will be attacked if the bill comes into effect.
2021-07-29

Karnataka reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa.
2021-03-10

Moderna announces that they will ship their vaccine candidate for testing against the 501.V2 variant that originated in South Africa.
2021-02-24

A bus crash in Karoo, South Africa, leaves ten people dead and 30 injured.
2018-08-30

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says white South African farmers could receive fast-track visas on "humanitarian grounds" amid calls to transfer land ownership from white to black farmers, and fears over the number of racially-motivated farm killings.
2018-03-14

The trial of two South African farm workers for the murder of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging white supremacist Eugène Terre'Blanche begins.
2011-10-10

Thousands of people demonstrate in protest at the Pope's views on condom use, homosexuality, education, the ordination of women and the child abuse case.
2010-09-18

South African police build a barricade from razor wire to curtail people scuffles outside Ventersdorp Magistrate's court where two farm workers, aged 15 and 28, are charged with Saturday's murder of white supremacist leader Eugène Terre'Blanche. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-africa-8604375.stm (BBC News)] [http:--www.iol.co.za-general-news-newsprint.php?art_id=nw20100406074136492C719886&sf= (IOL)]date=August 2019
2010-04-6