Sources: BBC
Former South African president Jacob Zuma and his party uMkhonto weSizwe appeal to the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting, citing electoral fraud. 2024-06-11
Flash flooding kills 21 people in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 2023-12-30
A light aircraft crashes in Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa, killing all three people on board. 2023-01-15
Peru reports its first four cases of the Omicron variant in one person who travelled from South Africa and another three who had no travel history. 2021-12-19
South Africa expands the country's vaccine age eligibility to all adults over the age of 18 in order to increase the vaccination rate as the country deals with an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta variant. 2021-08-20
South Africa approves a vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca for emergency use in the country. 2021-01-27
South African track star Oscar Pistorius is officially charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home earlier this year, with the trial due to start on March 13. 2013-08-19
The leaders of the Southern African Development Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, and the East African Community signed an agreement in South Africa to develop a joint free trade bloc to stretch from Cape Town to Cairo, to encompass 26 countries. 2011-06-12
39 people are killed in South Africa and thousands of homes are destroyed in Mozambique following widespread flooding. 2011-01-17