Sources: The Guardian
U.S. President Donald Trump orders a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa citing a South African law that allegedly allows land to be forcibly seized from white farmers. Trump also calls for the U.S. to accept Afrikaner refugees to protect them from "government-sponsored race-based discrimination". 2025-02-7
Egypt announces it will intervene on South Africa's side in the "South Africa v Israel" case in response to Israel's growing assault on Rafah. 2024-05-12
South Africa confirms that Russian president Vladimir Putin, who faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, will participate remotely in the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg rather than attend in person. 2023-07-19
Six people are killed and four others are injured during a mass shooting at a home in Kwanobuhle, Eastern Cape, South Africa. 2023-07-11
The death toll from the fuel tanker explosion in Boksburg, South Africa, six days ago, increases to 34. 2022-12-30
South Africa and Colombia report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-24
Greece reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a man who travelled from South Africa to Crete. 2021-12-2
Karnataka reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-03-10
South Africa reports its first two deaths from COVID-19, both occurring at hospitals in Western Cape province. The government also announces a 21-day lockdown as cases surpass 1,000. 2020-03-27
A court in South Africa sentences Nigerian militant Henry Okah to 24 years' imprisonment for his involvement in the Abuja car bombings which killed at least 12 people in October 2010. 2013-03-26