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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, is arrested and charged with corruption one day after resigning from office.
2024-04-4

The United Kingdom ends its travel ban on Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
2021-12-20

Mauritius reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people who travelled from South Africa.
2021-12-11

South Africa begins the second phase of its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 for people aged 60 or older as the government has set a goal to vaccinate five million people by the end of June.
2021-05-17

Florida reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa.
2021-03-1

Maryland confirms its first case of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa, becoming the second U.S. state to do so after South Carolina.
2021-01-30

Two lions, two hyenas, a rhino and a giraffe are killed at Kruger National Park, South Africa, after storms topple a power cable.
2019-01-29

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces she will seek a second referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
2017-03-13

J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer are among those to criticise South Africa's "secrecy bill" which they say could fundamentally threaten free speech and investigative journalism.
2012-06-6

Europe's biggest lottery jackpot, £161 million (US$260 million), is scooped by a couple from Largs, Ayrshire, in Scotland.
2011-07-15