Sources: France 24
Twelve people are killed in a mass shooting in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2026-06-9
Ghanaian foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa announces plans to evacuate about 300 citizens from South Africa following attacks targeting sub-Saharan African migrants. 2026-05-13
The death toll in the flooding caused by heavy rainfall and snowfall from a winter storm in Eastern Cape, South Africa, increases to 57, with several others still missing. 2025-06-12
Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa. 2024-07-10
Indonesia reports its first two cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, first discovered in India, in two people from Jakarta. The country also reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.351 variant, first discovered in South Africa, in a person from Bali. 2021-05-3
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is now in a "permanent vegetative state" and doctors have advised his family to turn off his life support machine. 2013-07-4
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is readmitted to a Pretoria hospital in a serious condition with a recurring lung infection. 2013-06-8
South Africa announces it will send 400 more soldiers to the Central African Republic in an effort to assist the current regime, which faces a potential attack by the Seleka rebel coalition on the capital. 2013-01-6
The Palace of Monaco announces the engagement of Albert II, Prince of Monaco to South African native and Olympian swimmer Charlene Wittstock. 2010-06-23
Afghanistan: Five civilians, including four children, die in an explosion, while two construction contractors, including one from South Africa, are shot dead. 2010-03-11