After a long battle with cancer, Lewis died in a Johannesburg hospital on 2 May 2011.

She was accepted as a trainee nurse at a Johannesburg "Non-European" hospital called Johannesburg General.

The editor of a leading anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa has been sent back to prison from a Johannesburg hospital, his lawyer said yesterday.

There has been some criticism of the three fugitives within the anti-apartheid movement, because they and a fourth detainee, Clifford Ncgobo, escaped while undergoing medical care at a Johannesburg hospital.

Mr. Alsfine walked Ms. Lewis back to her apartment - and discovered that they had been born in the same Johannesburg hospital two weeks apart.

A brief panic over the first appearance of Ebola fever in South Africa seemed to abate today when officials said they had discovered the source: a doctor from Gabon who was treated in a Johannesburg hospital three weeks ago.

Mr. Mandela spent most of last week in a private Johannesburg hospital undergoing medical tests and surgery to remove an inflammatory cyst from his bladder.

On 7 June 2012, Tobias died after a long illness, at a Johannesburg hospital aged 86.

Four black detainees on a hunger strike escaped today from a Johannesburg hospital, fled 38 miles to Pretoria and took refuge at the West German Embassy, officials said.

At this time the connection between these two patients was recognized by the attending physician in the Johannesburg hospital.