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Israel expels South Africa's "chargé d'affaires" Shaun Byneveldt to reciprocate South Africa's "persona non grata" declaration on the Israeli ambassador following international incidents between the two countries in the wake of South Africa's genocide case against Israel.
2026-01-30

The South African Police Service confirms at least 41 young men were killed from circumcision procedures during traditional initiation activities over the past two months in South Africa.
2025-12-30

At least 49 people are killed, including four schoolchildren, in flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall in a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
2025-06-11

U.S. president Donald Trump confronts South African president Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House during a state visit by Ramaphosa, claiming that there is a genocide against Afrikaners in South Africa, which Ramaphosa strongly denied.
2025-05-21

South Carolina reports the United States' first two cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in people with no known travel history.
2021-01-28

Gold Fields Ltd, a South African mining company, has hired an investment bank, RBC Capital Markets, to help it sell 30% of its gold project in northern Chile.
2020-01-21

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

"Elife" publishes a discovery by scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand announcing a new species of hominid ("Homo naledi") in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa. Although the remains have yet to be properly dated, they could be three million years old.
2015-09-10

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India, for the 2012 BRICS summit.
2012-03-29

Brazil and Zimbabwe play a football game in front of a sell-out crowd in Harare ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the first time since independence that a non-African team has performed in the country. President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai both attend and civil servants are given time off work.
2010-06-2