Sources: BBC
Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa. 2024-07-10
Eleven workers are killed and 75 others are injured at an Impala platinum mine in Rustenburg, North West, South Africa, when a lift transporting them to the surface drops approximately 200 m. 2023-11-27
Janusz Waluś, the convicted assassin of South African anti-apartheid politician Chris Hani, is stabbed and wounded in prison in Pretoria a few days before his scheduled release on parole. 2022-11-29
Comair, a South African franchisee for British Airways, suspends all flights after the company announced that it has run out of funds. Budget airline Kulula.com, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comair, has also suspended all flights. 2022-06-1
Namibia suspends the usage of the Russian made Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine amid reports from South Africa that the vaccine increases risk of men contracting HIV. 2021-10-23
New Jersey reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-03-10
Police in Mahikeng, Northwest Province, South Africa, fire rubber bullets as protestors against corruption and public service provision riot. President Cyril Ramaphosa leaves a Commonwealth summit in London to attend the scene. 2018-04-21
A court in South Africa rules that the decision in 2009 to drop over 750 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma was irrational and called for a review of them. However, the court ruling does not automatically reinstate the charges against Zuma as a legal team must be set up to decide on whether to charge him or not. 2016-04-29
South Africa is invited to join the BRIC group of emerging markets. 2010-12-24
A school bus collides with a train in Cape Town, South Africa, killing at least nine pupils and injuring five others. 2010-08-25