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Half of Africa’s white rhino population is in private hands – it’s time for a new conservation approach

Southern white rhinos are widely known as a conservation success story. Their population grew from fewer than 100 individuals in the 1920s to 20,000 in 2012, mostly in South Africa.

The Conversation

Kremlin says Russia will take part in BRICS summit at 'proper level'

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia would take part at the "proper level" in a planned summit in South Africa of the BRICS nations, responding to a question on whether President Vladimir Putin would attend the gathering.

Reuters

Alan Quinlan has people in fits of laughter with plea to his mother after Munster's URC title win

The Reds legend said his mam Mary only returned home from South Africa on Monday morning and reported she was "on the tear again"

Irish Mirror

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153,000-year-old footprints from South Africa are the oldest Homo sapiens tracks on record

A modern dating method has revealed the oldest Homo sapiens' footprints yet, placing bipedal humans in South Africa around 153,000 years ago.

LiveScience

Tonight's rugby news as Test man stabbed with dad shot during alleged robbery and ex-Scarlets boss gets World Cup job

The latest rugby headlines from Wales and beyond

Wales Online

South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked secretly at a naval base in December

The Independent UK

Munster homecoming details and ticket information announced after URC title victory in South Africa

The province are inviting fans to the Limerick venue from 6pm on Monday, with the team set to arrive at 7pm

Irish Mirror

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Requiem review – Mozart meets stomping South African movement

A double bill from Phoenix Dance Theatre and Opera North contrasts Mozart’s wretched souls with Neo Muyanga’s After Party – two very different ways of dealing with death

The Guardian - UK

Munster players dance the morning away with choir as URC title celebrations continue

As the team prepared to fly home from Cape Town after their 19-14 victory over the Stormers in the Grand Final, they were greeted by a South African choir

Irish Mirror

South Africa to investigate U.S. allegations of arms shipment to Russia

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate U.S. allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday.

Reuters

South Africa’s pact with Russia – and its actions – cast doubt on its claims of non-alignment

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 South Africa has proclaimed a policy of non-alignment in that conflict. This position was placed in doubt when US Ambassador Ruben Brigety claimed recently that he had evidence that South African arms and ammunition were loaded on a Russian ship in December…

The Conversation

Local farmers in South Africa were cut out of rooibos tea cash. Now change is brewing

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown trendy — 9,000 tons exported a year — they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

WEKU

Scientists Discover The World’s Oldest Human Footprint

Scientists identified a track made by Homo sapiens on South Africa’s Cape south coast.

Zenger

Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema in South Africa court

The 62-year-old was arrested this week near Cape Town after 22 years on the run.

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The Independent UK

Rwandan genocide suspect appears in court holding Bible after 22 years on the run

One of Rwanda’s most wanted suspect in that country's genocide has appeared in a South African courtroom holding a Bible

Birmingham Post

Office equipment supplier creates 60 Leicester jobs and says more needed

Viking has moved its customer service from South Africa to Leicester

Reuters

Rwanda suspect denies killings but 'sorry' over genocide

One of the Rwanda genocide's most wanted remaining suspects, accused of ordering the death of 2,000 people hiding in a church, denied on Friday any involvement though said he was "sorry" for the 1994 killings.

Wales Online

Dragons target signing of giant 19st South African with strong reputation

The Dragons are looking to strengthen their front five

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Bungendore landscaper Timothy Engstrom sentenced to 11 years in jail over plot to import cocaine in excavator arm

Timothy Engstrom is sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison over his part in a plot to import nearly 300 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the arm of an excavator from South Africa.

AAP

Landscaping supplier jailed for trying to get bricks

Partners in a struggling business who thought a broken excavator shipped from South Africa could solve their problems have been jailed over the cocaine inside.

ABC News

Former Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, accused of thousands of killings, arrested in South Africa

Fulgence Kayishema was living under a false name at a grape farm in South Africa when he was arrested for ordering the murder of thousands of Tutsis in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.

Reuters

South Africa cholera outbreak re-ignites anger over service delivery

By Carien du Plessis

The Independent UK

Former Mozambique finance minister loses last appeal, set for extradition to US over $2B scandal

Mozambique's former finance minister has lost a last-ditch legal appeal in South Africa and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies

The Conversation

Arms-to-Russia row raises doubt about South Africa’s compliance with arms control. It could face tougher scrutiny in future

The recent furore over accusations by the US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, that South Africa was supplying arms to Russia despite its declared policy of non-alignment, has sparked a debate on whether the country’s arms control is lax, non-compliant and lacks oversight.

France 24

One of Rwanda's most wanted genocide suspects arrested in South Africa

One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s genocide, a police officer suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people at a church nearly three decades ago, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations…

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