Sources: BBC
Thirteen peacekeepers, including nine from South Africa, three from Malawi and one from Uruguay, are killed as fighting intensifies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between government forces and M23 rebels, the latter backed by the Rwandan military. 2025-01-25
Two people, including South African rapper AKA, are shot dead outside a restaurant in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The assailants fled the scene on foot, according to police. 2023-02-10
South Africa agrees to send twelve cheetahs to India each year for the next eight to ten years to help secure a viable wild population. The Asiatic cheetah went extinct in India in the 1940s due to overhunting and habitat destruction. 2023-01-27
South Africa receives its second shipment of more than 80,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. 2021-02-27
South Africa is expected to begin a trial of the NVX-CoV2373, a vaccine candidate produced by Novavax. Around 2,904 volunteers are expected to be selected, who are aged from 18 to 64 years. 2020-09-5
At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in a road crash involving a bus travelling from Zambia to South Africa. 2018-09-17
At least 13 people die in a collision between a taxi and truck in the South African city of Bloemfontein. 2016-04-29
The first case of the Zika virus has been diagnosed in South Africa. 2016-02-19
Two people are killed and five others injured when a bomb explodes in Bedfordview, South Africa, near the Eastgate shopping mall. 2013-11-12
Riot police clash with protesters in Soweto, South Africa, shortly before a visit by United States President Barack Obama. 2013-06-29