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Police officers carry the body of a person on a stretcher after a mass shooting at an informal settlement in the Cleveland suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
June 10, 2026, 12:36 pm
12 killed in shooting spree at illegal miners’ site near Johannesburg
Attackers rampage through impoverished Jumpers settlement; cops suspect motive related to illegal mining activities, which has been linked to organized crime
By AFP
Palestinians who traveled to South Africa via a charter flight organized by an Israeli group stand in their temporary flat in Johannesburg, South Africa, February 4, 2026. (AP/Jerome Delay)
March 15, 2026, 5:17 pm
Israeli group was behind mysterious flights of Gazans to South Africa, report claims
Associated Press investigation based on documents, dozens of interviews finds Ad Kan group championed resettlement of Palestinians and attempted to hide Israeli involvement
By SAM MEDNICK, Julia Frankel, TOQA EZZIDIN and JAMES POLLARD
South Africa's Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie (C) speaks as he attends a commemoration ceremony, for French individuals who fought against apartheid, with South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile and France’s President Emmanuel Macron at Freedom Park in Pretoria on November 21, 2025 ahead of the G20 leaders' Summit. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
February 21, 2026, 3:34 am
South Africa pulls out of Venice Biennale after minister pans artist’s focus on Gaza
Gayton McKenzie, a staunch supporter of Israel, had alleged an unnamed foreign power wanted to use South Africa as ‘a proxy to endorse a geopolitical message about Israel’s actions in Gaza’
By Grace Gilson
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, center left, waves from a boat taking part in a civilian flotilla bound for Gaza, aiming to break the Israeli blockade on the Strip, in Barcelona, Spain, August 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
February 5, 2026, 7:42 pm
Anti-Israel activists announce plans for new Gaza flotilla in March
Campaigners including Nelson Mandela’s grandson call on international community to prevent Israel from again intercepting flotilla, which is expected to include over 100 vessels
By Agencies and ToI Staff
South Africa's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ronald Lamola attends the first meeting of BRICS Foreign Ministers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 28, 2025. (Mauro PIMENTEL / POOL / AFP)
November 17, 2025, 5:53 pm
South Africa ‘suspicious’ after Israeli national is linked to Gazans fleeing Strip
Foreign minister says revelations regarding charter plane that landed in Johannesburg indicate ‘clear agenda to cleanse Palestinians’ from Gaza and West Bank
By AFP and ToI Staff
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa gives a press conference at the Swiss House of Parliament during his two-day state visit in Switzerland, in Bern on October 29, 2025. (ENNIO LEANZA / AFP)
November 14, 2025, 11:11 pm
South Africa probing origin of unexpected charter flight carrying 153 Palestinians
Passengers allowed in on short-stay visas; PA embassy says it was deceived; Israel says group received visas from South Africa ahead of time
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinians fleeing Gaza sit aboard a plane detained at O.R. Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 13, 2025. (Screen capture: X)
November 14, 2025, 8:35 am
Palestinians fleeing Gaza detained on plane at South Africa airport for hours
South African activist alleges Israel deliberately neglected to stamp passports of some 160 Palestinians who arrived on charter flight; COGAT says they had visas from South Africa
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump departs Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, October 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images via AFP)
October 30, 2025, 10:06 pm
US to limit refugee acceptance to record low 7,500, mostly white South Africans
Admissions, which were over 100,000 under Biden, will primarily be allocated to Afrikaners and ‘other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands’
By AFP
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters hoist flags and signs as they are addressed by Indya Moore during a Let Gaza Live march in Park City, Utah, January 21, 2025. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/AFP)
September 20, 2025, 11:22 am
Experts liken surge in celebrity Israel boycott calls to anti-apartheid embargos
Increasing number of Western artists call to shun Israeli cultural and artistic events, push to bar Israeli participation in international sporting competitions over Gaza war
By AFP and ToI Staff
Freed Israeli hostage Or Levy speaks at an event organized by the Jewish National Fund South Africa (JNFSA) in in Glenhazel, near Johannesburg, on August 31, 2025. (EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)
September 2, 2025, 8:30 pm
Former Hamas hostage Or Levy brings awareness of captives’ plight to South Africa
Speaking to Johannesburg’s Jewish community, Levy says ‘I think that everyone needs to hear what I’ve been through and what others are still going through’
By AFP and ToI Staff
SABC presenter Juliet Newell (L) debates Mamphela Ramphele on South African television, August 2025. (Screenshots: YouTube, clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 2, 2025, 7:07 pm
South African interviewer fired for challenging comparison of Gaza war to Holocaust
Juliet Newell called the juxtaposition ‘provocative,’ noted the issues are different, prompting SABC broadcaster to boot her under pro-Palestinian pressure; Yad Vashem: ‘A moral failure’
By Zev Stub
US President Donald Trump meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 22, 2025, 5:05 am
Trump confronts South African leader with baseless claims of white ‘genocide’
US president dims lights to play video in Oval Office, says white farmers in South Africa face ‘death, death, death, horrible death’; Ramaphosa: ‘We are completely opposed to that’
By AP
Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
May 17, 2025, 11:13 am
Afrikaner resettled by US Jewish group as a refugee denies accusations of antisemitism
Charl Kleinhaus says posts taken out of context as US media scrutinizes members of white South African minority Trump admitted after accusing Pretoria of genocide against them
By ToI Staff
South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein speaks at an Israeli Memorial Day ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, April 30, 2025. (Screenshot/ Facebook)
May 16, 2025, 4:18 pm
South Africa’s chief rabbi lauds Trump but calls his Afrikaner refugee policy a ‘mistake’
As the US turns away all refugees aside from white South Africans, calling their persecution at home a ‘genocide,’ Warren Goldstein says the portrayal is a mischaracterization
By Shira Li Bartov
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, first row left, listens in Johannesburg on January 26, 2024, to the ruling from the top UN court that harshly criticized Israel's war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza. (AP Photo)
April 28, 2025, 6:05 am
South African Jews hopeful teetering coalition will be forced to temper anti-Israel stance
Some community leaders believe the solution to domestic challenges and a diplomatic crisis with the US begins with the Jewish state – but will the government agree?
By Zev Stub
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