Sources: BBC
At least 260 miners are trapped after a collapse at the KDC gold mine near Carletonville, Gauteng, South Africa. 2025-05-23
Mississippi reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant, which was originally detected in South Africa, in a person in Harrison County. 2021-03-19
Washington, D.C. confirms its first cases of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa and the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-11
Spain will restrict travel to South Africa and Brazil due to concerns about new variants of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-2
Cyclone Eloise leaves at least thirteen people dead and more than 8,000 people homeless after making landfall in central Mozambique. Major flooding is also reported in Eswatini, South Africa and Zimbabwe. 2021-01-25
Sudan will ban all travellers from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa beginning December 23 due to the discovery of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2020-12-21
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
An explosion at a Rheinmetall munition depot near Cape Town, South Africa, kills at least eight people. 2018-09-3
Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says white South African farmers could receive fast-track visas on "humanitarian grounds" amid calls to transfer land ownership from white to black farmers, and fears over the number of racially-motivated farm killings. 2018-03-14
According to a report released by Malegapuru William Makgoba, 94 mentally ill patients in South Africa died from starvation, dehydration and diarrhea between March and December 2016 because of a "reckless" government attempt to save money by transferring the patients from a specialized institution to care centres with "invalid licenses". 2017-02-1