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Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front reach a "permanent" ceasefire agreement at African Union-brokered peace talks in South Africa, exactly two years after the war began.
2022-11-2

Arizona reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant, which was originally detected in South Africa.
2021-03-26

Uzbekistan extends their travel restrictions to the United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Australia, the Netherlands, and South Africa until February 1.
2021-01-11

Denmark bans travel to non-residents from South Africa over concerns of the 501.V2 variant.
2021-01-6

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

Three students at a school in Johannesburg, South Africa, are killed after a footbridge connecting the main school administration to various class rooms collapses.
2019-02-1

"Elife" publishes a discovery by scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand announcing a new species of hominid ("Homo naledi") in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa. Although the remains have yet to be properly dated, they could be three million years old.
2015-09-10

South African wild fires kill seven people, five in Kokstad in KwaZulu-Natal and two in the Abaqulusi Local Municipality, as well as destroying thousands of hectares of forest and grazing land.
2014-06-17

The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (also known as COP 17) begins in Durban, South Africa.
2011-11-28

Talks begin between the government and workers striking for better conditions in South Africa in the third week of a conflict which has seen troops deployed.
2010-08-30