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South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party says that it will join a unity government with the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance.
2024-06-12

Portugal also reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant that originated in South Africa. They do not indicate whether the individual travelled.
2021-01-22

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

Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from Knysna Local Municipality on Garden Route in South Africa after wildfire destroyed 150 homes. The Wildfire is connected to the worst windstorm in 30 years, which already killed at least 8 people in Cape Town. [https:--www.bbc.com-news-world-africa-40199270 (BBC)] [https:--www.enca.com-south-africa-knysna-toddler-dies-on-birthday (ENCA)] [https:--www.rte.ie-news-world-2017-0608-881071-south_africa- (RTE)] [http:--www.aljazeera.com-news-2017-06-storm-kills-displaces-thousands-cape-town-170608052748704.html (Al Jazeera)] [https:--www.nytimes.com-2017-06-07-world-africa-south-africa-cape-town-storm-fires.html "(The New York Times)"]
2017-06-8

South African wild fires kill seven people, five in Kokstad in KwaZulu-Natal and two in the Abaqulusi Local Municipality, as well as destroying thousands of hectares of forest and grazing land.
2014-06-17

Rwanda and South Africa each expel the other's diplomats after armed men broke into an exiled Rwandan critic's home in Johannesburg.
2014-03-7

Nobel prize winner, anti-Apartheid activist, and former South African president, Nelson Mandela, dies at age 95.
2013-12-5

In South Africa, controversial ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is suspended from the country's ruling party for 5 years.
2011-11-10

"Australopithecus sediba" skeletons found at the Cradle of Humankind site in South Africa are dated at 2 million years old, suggesting that the hominid species could be a transitional fossil between apes and humans.
2011-09-9

An injunction prevents public sector workers from continuing their national strike for better pay in South Africa; the army had previously been deployed and the country's health minister accused strikers of murder.
2010-08-21