Sources: BBC
Five people are killed and another is injured in a home invasion and shooting in Gugulethu, Cape Town, South Africa. 2026-07-27
A South African separatist group, Boervolk of the Orange Free State, files a formal claim in a government gazette seeking land in KwaZulu-Natal, citing historical transactions with Zulu rulers and invoking a United Nations decolonization resolution. 2026-02-2
A bus overturns on a highway in Johannesburg, South Africa, killing at least 16 people and injuring 35 others, including 11 critically. 2025-03-11
Twenty people are killed and 68 others injured in a head-on collision between a tour bus and an armoured cash-in-transit van in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa. 2023-02-14
South African scientists detect a new COVID-19 variant named Lineage B.1.1.529 that poses a "major threat" to efforts to reduce the spread of the virus, and blames the variant for the exponential rise of new cases in the country. 2021-11-25
Karnataka reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-03-10
A BMW collides with two oncoming minibuses between Fouriesburg and Bethlehem in Free State, South Africa, killing thirteen and injuring eight. 2019-03-1
A lion fatally wounds a South African woman working at the Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage in Bulawayo, the sanctuary's first human fatality since its establishment three decades ago. 2010-06-3
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma goes to India on his first state visit to Asia, launching a bilateral trade forum in Mumbai. 2010-06-2