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Nine people are killed and 17 others are injured in a bus crash near Paulpietersburg, South Africa.
2024-02-25

Eight people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a birthday party in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
2023-01-29

300 people are displaced by new flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
2022-05-23

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

Greece reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a man who travelled from South Africa to Crete.
2021-12-2

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, experiences widespread looting and violent attacks by rioters focused on foreigners. Police are currently outnumbered and many businesses have been set on fire. The riots follow the death of a taxi driver reportedly shot by Nigerian drug dealers after they realized he had seen them complete a drug deal and had also seen their supplier. Bus services are suspended and authorities say the capital is currently unsafe.
2019-08-28

Rescue workers recover eight bodies from a South African gold mine in Doornkop following a fire on Tuesday night. One worker is missing while another eight were rescued.
2014-02-6

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

The murder of a South African lesbian activist who was stoned and stabbed to death is condemned as part of an "epidemic" of hate crimes against gays in South Africa.
2011-05-3

Two attempts in South Africa to arrest former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes during the war on Gaza are rejected.
2011-01-19