Sources: BBC
Bolivia formally joins South Africa's case in the International Court of Justice regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip as genocide, stating it "has a responsibility to condemn the crime of genocide". 2024-10-9
Nine people are killed and eight others are reported missing after flash flooding hits a church in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2022-12-4
Canada ends a travel ban on many African nations, including Nigeria and South Africa. 2021-12-17
New Jersey reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-03-10
South African pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare announces that they have made a deal with Johnson & Johnson to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccine candidate if approved in South Africa and internationally. 2020-11-2
A partially-constructed building collapses onto a truck in Jacobs, Durban, South Africa, killing at least three people and hospitalising six more. 2018-03-28
South African Paralympic sprinting medalist Oscar Pistorius's sentencing hearing begins. He faces a minimum 15-year jail term since his original manslaughter charge for the 2013 killing of Reeva Steenkamp has been upgraded to murder. The hearing is set to last for five days. 2016-06-13
South African platinum miners return to work after a five month strike ends. 2014-06-25
Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela is hospitalised with a lung infection. 2013-03-28
Four bodies are discovered in an abandoned South African gold mine owned by relatives of Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma following a shooting. 2010-08-13