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Six people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting after eight gunmen open fire on a group of community patrollers in Godini village near Qumbu, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The shooting took place on the day of the memorial service for the victims of the Lusikisiki shootings, which also occurred in the Eastern Cape.
2024-10-6

Seventeen people are killed in two mass shootings at homes in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
2024-09-28

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

Eight people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a birthday party in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
2023-01-29

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

The South African city of Port Elizabeth is formally renamed "Gqeberha" (ᶢǃʱɛ̀ɓéːxà, the Xhosa name for the Baakens River which flows through the city. Port Elizabeth International Airport is also renamed Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport, after David Stuurman. These name changes are part of a wider campaign to remove colonial and apartheid-era names in the Eastern Cape.
2021-02-24

British Columbia reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from South Africa.
2021-01-14

King Khoebaha Calvin Cornelius III declares independence from South Africa to form the "Sovereign State of Good Hope", encompassing the states of Northern Cape, Western Cape, and the western parts of Eastern Cape. The state raised their own flag after taking down the South African flag.
2018-07-16

A Shosholoza Meyl passenger train collides head-on with a goods train in Eastern Cape, South Africa, killing two people and injuring 20.
2015-05-20

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