South Africa

South Africa is a primary location within The Suffering. The country only saw roughly 16% of its population survive the plague, with over 65% dying from the plague, 10% from drowning and 9% from murder. Those who survived formed small clans surrounding Cape Town or Lesotho. In 2025, the United States liberated South Cape Town in order to re-start the nation.

Apocalypse
Not much is known of the events in South Africa. Their first recorded case of the plague was in April 2021 and they stopped responding to other governments and the United Nations in June 2021, inclining the nation was quick to be overrun.

Those who helped liberate Cape Town documented how the city was half-burned and half-deserted, inclining a possible mass fleeing of the city's original population. According to survivors, Cape Town went silent after a week of their first reported case which sparked a Great Panic across the country, therefore mass numbers attempted to flee to other nations or via boat. Almost all of these "numbers" were quickly killed by the infected or sunk with their ships.