Sources: The Guardian
Four people are killed and eleven others are rescued when an under-construction building on top of a Hindu temple collapses in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 2025-12-12
A South African equality court finds Limpopo representative and leader of the second-largest opposition party Julius Malema guilty of hate speech over remarks made at a 2022 rally, where he encouraged violence in the context of revolution. 2025-08-27
South Africa agrees to send twelve cheetahs to India each year for the next eight to ten years to help secure a viable wild population. The Asiatic cheetah went extinct in India in the 1940s due to overhunting and habitat destruction. 2023-01-27
New York reports their first case of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa in a person from Nassau County. 2021-02-21
The Spanish Health Ministry introduces a ten-day quarantine for all travelers arriving from Brazil and South Africa. 2021-02-17
South Africa suspends its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZenenca vaccine after research finds that the vaccine is less effective against the 501.V2 variant discovered in the country. 2021-02-7
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
Death of Mido Macia: Eight South African policemen are arrested on suspicion of murder after dragging a Mozambican man behind their police van earlier in the week. 2013-03-1
Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is charged with money laundering at a court in South Africa. 2012-09-26
Between 19 and 30 people are killed after a train crashes into a truck carrying farm labourers near the South African town of Malelane. 2012-07-13