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Twelve people are killed, including three children, and 13 others are injured in a mass shooting at an unlicensed bar in Saulsville, Gauteng, South Africa.
2025-12-6

Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa.
2024-07-10

South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor urges the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on the prosecutor to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity, and genocide. [https:--www.news24.com-news24-politics-parliament-pandor-calls-for-international-criminal-court-to-issue-arrest-warrant-for-benjamin-netanyahu-20231107 (News 24)] [https:--www.timeslive.co.za-sunday-times-opinion-and-analysis-opinion-2023-11-12-arrest-netanyahu-and-halt-the-gaza-genocide- (Sunday Times (South Africa))]
2023-11-12

South Africa lifts its remaining COVID-19 restrictions including mandatory PCR tests for vaccinated travellers as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to decline.
2022-03-23

South Africa lifts its midnight curfew, allowing alcohol sales to return to normal hours in certain premises, and also allowing gatherings of up to 1,000 people indoors and 2,000 people outdoors, due to a decrease in the number of new COVID-19 cases.
2021-12-30

Sri Lanka reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant, which originated in South Africa, in a person who travelled from Tanzania and is currently staying at a quarantine centre.
2021-03-12

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

Two minibuses collide head-on near Limpopo, South Africa. All eleven on board the vehicles die.
2019-09-22

Around 10,000 South African miners demonstrate at the Lonmin mines in Marikana ("Rooikoppies"), Rustenburg, Bojanala Platinum district, North West province. Fifteen thousand miners strike at the Gold Fields KDC West Driefontein mine.
2012-09-10

The World Bank approves a $3.75 billion loan for a coal-fired power plant in South Africa.
2010-04-9