South Africa
Facts and historical events related to South Africa, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- The Iran nuclear capabilities has taken centre stage recently with the Israel-Iran War, but do you know tha…
- Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu will be buried in South Africa instead of Zambia, due to a family disp…
- Highest-Paid African Presidents (as at 01/01/2025) 1. Paul Biya - Cameroon 🇨🇲 Monthly Salary: $51,748 Ann…
- South Africa is the only country on the African continent to have legalized weed for personal and recreatio…
- Snow in South Africa....
- DJ Khalid and the Roc Nation welcoming South Africa's champions who have dominated the league for the 8th t…
- Burial ceremony of the late, great intellectual, Steve Biko, on the 25th September 1977 in Ginsberg, South…
- The Steve Biko Building at the University of Manchester, named after the late, great South African anti-apa…
- Is there "White genocide" in South Africa?
- Trump's "evidence" of white South African genocide was completely fabricated. Images he showed President Ra…
- Julius Malema took President Ramaphosa of South Africa to the cleaners recently for cowering to Elon Musk a…
- Between April 2024 and April 2025, teenage pregnancies were recorded amongst 154 girls aged between 10 and…
- Muhsin Hendricks, South African imam and Islamic scholar known as one of the world's first openly gay imams… (2025)
- Athol Fugard, South African playwright who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath in works like 'Master Har… (2025)
- South African actress Connie Chiume, known internationally for her role as a tribal elder in "Black Panther… (2024)
- South Africa held a general election in which the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority… (2024)
- South Africa's Springboks defeated New Zealand 12-11 in the Rugby World Cup final, winning a record fourth… (2023)
- South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over its conduct in… (2023)
- AKA, South African rapper and one of the country's best-selling hip-hop artists, is shot and killed in Durban. (2023)
- BREAKING: The great Desmond Tutu, former Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town; South African…
- BREAKING: The United States has joined Canada, the UK, many European countries and some Asian countries in…
- In 1970, pressured South Africa's apartheid regime allowed for the first time, a black representative to th…
- BREAKING: F.W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa who yielded power to black majority rule has died…
- Lest we forget, the late, great South African reggae legend, Lucky Dube was fatally shot in Rosettenville,…
- Former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki dishing hard truths we need to admit as Africans. Watch.
- How the process to buy a gun in South Africa compares to same in some other countries... (NYT)
- Here are the hotspots for African venture capital investment, with Nigeria ($307 million), Kenya ($305 mill…
- Top 10 causes of death in South Africa as at 2019. (IHME)
- BREAKING: Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for "egregio…
- The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1930s, 1960s, 1974, and 2017.
- According to the UN-sponsored World Happiness Report 2021, here are the 10 happiest countries in Africa: 1.…
- Happy independence to our Namibian brothers and sisters! On 21 March 1990, Namibia secured its independence…
- Speaking of great kings, here's the story of one of Africa's greatest leaders, Basotho nation and Lesotho's…
- BREAKING: legendary South African actor, Menzi Ngubane, particularly renowned for his role as Sibusiso Dlom…
- BREAKING: Patrice Motsepe, the South African billionaire, has been elected new President of the Confederati…
- President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, then Minister of State Security, talks about imposing sanctions o…
- Good morning Africa, as we start our day with a tribute to The Queen of African Pop, South African singer,…
- On 19th May, 1986, the South African apartheid Government breached territorial sovereignty and conducted ai…
- BREAKING—South Africa has stopped the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID19 vaccine, as it couldn't protect…
- Here's Wauter "Dr Death" Basson, the all-powerful leader of Project Coast, a chemical/bio weapons programme…