Sources: BBC
At least 49 people are killed, including four schoolchildren, in flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall in a winter storm in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. 2025-06-11
South Africa scraps the mandatory self-quarantine period for asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and cuts the mandatory self-quarantine period for symptomatic patients to seven days because 60% to 80% of its population now had COVID-19. 2022-01-31
The United Kingdom ends its travel ban on Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 2021-12-20
The government extends the Level 5 lockdown restrictions until March 5. They also agree to impose a 14-day mandatory hotel quarantine for all travelers without negative COVID-19 test results as well as all travelers from Brazil and South Africa. 2021-01-26
A fire in the South African city of Cape Town leaves two people dead and four thousand people homeless. 2015-11-29
Nobel prize winner, anti-Apartheid activist, and former South African president, Nelson Mandela, dies at age 95. 2013-12-5
The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet in New Delhi, India, for the 2012 BRICS summit. 2012-03-29
The Independent Democrats and Democratic Alliance opposition parties in South Africa agree to merge against the ruling African National Congress. 2010-08-15
South African police shoot a lachrymatory agent at hundreds of 2010 FIFA World Cup stewards at pay cut protests in Durban. 2010-06-13