Sources: The Guardian
South African former Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is released on parole after serving eight and a half years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. 2024-01-5
Nine people are killed and eight others are reported missing after flash flooding hits a church in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2022-12-4
South Africa and Colombia report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-24
In the fourth day of a siege in Palma, Mozambique, several people are killed by ISIL-linked militants. Local civilians are killed in streets and buildings, with reports of beheadings. A South African man and a British citizen are murdered after a hotel and an evacuation convoy are attacked; other foreigners are also suspected to have been killed. At least 21 soldiers are shot dead while responding to the hotel attack. 2021-03-27
Western Cape reports their first case of African Swine Fever at two small farms in Mfuleni, Eerste River in Cape Town, South Africa. 2021-02-25
Police arrest five suspects over a firebombing of a bus in Limpopo, South Africa, that killed six people. 2018-04-4
A court in South Africa rules that the decision in 2009 to drop over 750 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma was irrational and called for a review of them. However, the court ruling does not automatically reinstate the charges against Zuma as a legal team must be set up to decide on whether to charge him or not. 2016-04-29
A Jordanian policeman shoots dead two American instructors and a South African before being killed at a police training centre in Al-Muwaqqar, on the eastern outskirts of Amman. U.S. contractors are sent to the facility to assist Jordanian police trainers. 2015-11-9
Carworkers in South Africa end their eight-day strike with a 10% pay deal. 2010-08-20
The death toll from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in South Africa has risen to 17. 2010-05-7