Sources: BBC
Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa. 2024-07-10
The death toll from the floods in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, during the last five days increases to 300. 2022-04-13
Romania reports its first cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two citizens who travelled from South Africa on November 30. 2021-12-4
The Czech Republic reports their first cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa in a group of people who travelled to Zanzibar. 2021-02-25
British Columbia reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from South Africa. 2021-01-14
In a deal brokered by South African mediators, Lesotho's government says that Prime Minister Tom Thabane "will immediately resign", in a "dignified and secure" exit from power. Thabane is accused of murdering his ex-wife Lipolelo Thabane in 2017. 2020-04-20
An explosion at a Rheinmetall munition depot near Cape Town, South Africa, kills at least eight people. 2018-09-3
King Khoebaha Calvin Cornelius III declares independence from South Africa to form the "Sovereign State of Good Hope", encompassing the states of Northern Cape, Western Cape, and the western parts of Eastern Cape. The state raised their own flag after taking down the South African flag. 2018-07-16
The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa. 2011-11-28
The death toll from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in South Africa has risen to 17. 2010-05-7