Sources: BBC
U.S. President Donald Trump orders a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa citing a South African law that allegedly allows land to be forcibly seized from white farmers. Trump also calls for the U.S. to accept Afrikaner refugees to protect them from "government-sponsored race-based discrimination". 2025-02-7
Three Coptic Christian monks from Egypt are killed during a mass stabbing at a monastery in Cullinan, South Africa. 2024-03-12
New York reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa in a person from Nassau County. 2021-02-21
Poland reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-02-19
South Africa reports a record 21,980 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,192,570. 2021-01-8
South Korea reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 when a person who traveled from South Africa on December 26 later tested positive for COVID-19. 2021-01-2
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
Lonmin shares are slightly up on hopes of talks. Solidarity, a major trade union, does not share the optimism yet. A new shooting today at a gold mine in Johannesburg wounds at least four. South Africa conditionally releases 162 of the 270 miners who were detained for killing their fellow miners at Marikana last month. 2012-09-3
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu retires from public life after reaching his 79th birthday. 2010-10-7
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