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Eighteen people are killed during a shootout between robbers and police in Limpopo, South Africa. The suspects are suspected to have been planning a cash truck heist, also called a cash-in-transit heist.
2023-09-1

Rwandan opposition politician Seif Bamporiki is killed in his car by a single bullet fired by a gunman in Cape Town, South Africa, where he lived in exile.
2021-02-22

A separate, second variant from South Africa is also reported in Finland, after two people tested positive for COVID-19.
2020-12-28

A French court sentences two former Rwandan mayors of the town of Kabarondo to life in prison on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. During the genocide, Hutu extremists massacred over 2,000 Tutsi who sought refuge in the town.
2016-07-7

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

Anglo Platinum Limited—the world's biggest platinum producer—fires 12,000 people in South Africa after a strike over working conditions. The corporation has stated that the strikes have cost it 39,000 ounces in output - equivalent to 700 million rand ($82.3 million; £51 million) in revenue.
2012-10-5

Rwandan Lieutenant-Colonel Rugigana Ngabo, brother of exiled General Faustin Nyamwasa, is reported missing, having been arrested on Friday.
2010-08-22

Six people are arrested in South Africa over the shooting of Rwandan dissident Lt Gen Nyamwasa.
2010-06-21