Sources: The Guardian
The Czech Republic reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a woman in Liberec who had been in Namibia. She had passed through South Africa and Dubai on her flight to the Czech Republic. 2021-11-27
As South Africa faces its third wave of COVID-19, scientists say that the Delta variant of the virus appears to be dominating most of the infections in the worst-hit country in Africa. South Africa reported over 18,000 new cases on Friday. 2021-06-26
Malaysia reports nine locally transmitted cases of the 501.V2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was originally detected in South Africa. 2021-04-1
President Cyril Ramaphosa announces that the country has secured nine million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine, with the first shipment of 80,000 doses arriving next week. 2021-02-11
"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
Turkey, South Africa and Russia react angrily to the British government and demand an explanation for the revelations that their politicians and senior officials were spied on and bugged during the 2009 G20 summit in London 2013-06-17
Former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela is released from the hospital after "successful" medical tests. [http:--www.miamiherald.com-2013-03-09-3276297-safrica-mandela-admitted-to-hospital.html (AP via "Miami Herald")]date=August 2019 2013-03-10
A woman accused of sexually abusing girls at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Meyerton, South Africa, is acquitted. 2010-10-11
Producers on the South African version of the "Big Brother" TV series evict a male housemate who punched a female housemate, bowing to pressure from women's rights activists after initially accepting the physical confrontation. 2010-09-17
A school bus collides with a train in Cape Town, South Africa, killing at least nine pupils and injuring five others. 2010-08-25