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Three Coptic Christian monks from Egypt are killed during a mass stabbing at a monastery in Cullinan, South Africa.
2024-03-12

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

South Africa begins its vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using a vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, which has not yet been authorized worldwide. President Cyril Ramaphosa, government officials, and health workers are among the first to receive the vaccine.
2021-02-17

A wave of xenophobic attacks on migrants and foreign owned businesses in South Africa, particularly targeting Nigerian citizens, continues into its sixth day.
2019-09-3

Two passenger trains collide in Pretoria, South Africa, killing at least four people and injuring at least 620 others.
2019-01-8

Authorities in South Africa issue a warrant for the arrest of Julius Malema on charges of corruption.
2012-09-21

Julius Malema, formerly of the African National Congress Youth League, loses an appeal against a decision by South Africa's ruling African National Congress party to suspend him.
2012-02-4

In South Africa, controversial ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is suspended from the country's ruling party for 5 years.
2011-11-10

A former Rwandan army chief in exile, Faustin Nyamwasa, is shot in South Africa.
2010-06-19

A bid is unsuccessful by South Africa's Jamiatul Ulama Transvaal to stop the publication of Jonathan Shapiro's cartoon of Muhammad on a psychiatrist's couch bemoaning his followers' sense of humour failure.
2010-05-21