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The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team aims for another top result in Cape Town

With the Cape Town E-Prix on 25 February, the innovative electric racing series celebrates its second premiere of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship season. The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team fields two Porsche 99X Electric in the picture postcard setting of the South African metropolis.

Motorsport

Love Island's Tanya blasted by Dami Hope for 'humiliating' his pal Martin in cruel scene

Dami Hope received a mixed reaction on Twitter last night, as the former Love Island star took issue with how Tanya Manhenga is treating his pal in the South African villa

Daily Mirror

How apartheid, European racism and Pelé helped cultivate a culture of diversity in US soccer that endures into the MLS

North America’s most diverse professional league kicks off on Feb. 25, 2023, as Major League Soccer returns after a winter break.

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Psychological grit is over-rated as the key to retention in distance education: a South African study debunks the myth

Psychological grit has garnered a lot of interest in the last decade, particularly in the higher education arena. It’s typically defined as passion and perseverance for long-term goals. A great deal has been written about it and the role it plays in the retention and success of tertiary students. Kelly…

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Fire-gutted South African parliament seen restarting fully by 2025

Reconstruction of South Africa's fire-gutted parliament building in Cape Town should be finished by 2025, more than three years after a blaze destroyed large parts of the precinct, officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters

South Africa and Israel: new memorial park in the Jewish state highlights complex history

Israeli officials and Jewish South African activists inaugurated a memorial park in Tel Mond, a city north of Tel Aviv, in November 2022. Gan Siyabonga (We Thank You Garden) commemorates several dozen Jewish South African anti-apartheid activists who had personal connections to Israel.

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Richa Ghosh enters top-20 in ICC Women's T20I rankings

DUBAI: After her consistent show in the ongoing Women's T20 World Cup in South Africa, India's wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh has moved up to be 20th in the ICC Women's T2OI rankings for batters, which is her best to date.

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Harmanpreet Kaur: India ready for likely semifinal against Australia

India made it to the semifinals of the Women's T20 World Cup in South Africa on the back of a five-run win over Ireland in their rain-hit last group game, which has raised the confidence of skipper Harmanpreet Kaur leading up to a likely semifinal against defending champoins Australia.

The Times of India

Strictly star Johannes Radebe says 'Scottish audiences are the best in the world'

The South African dancer can't wait to bring his solo tour Freedom to Scotland.

Daily Record

Festivals, fashion and feather bandits: why ostrich plumage is still worth its weight in gold – a photo essay

In the 19th century the prized feathers were more expensive by weight than gold. Today, from Strictly Come Dancing to the humble feather duster, demand remains high – and is largely met by farms in South Africa’s Western Cape

The Guardian - UK

The dark side of neutrality when it comes to war

Last May, before being newly re-elected as president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, bear equal responsibility for the war in Ukraine. Yet whether the refusal to pick sides comes from Brazil, South Africa, or India, claiming…

Bangkok Post

Zanele Muholi and the coming out of Black queer South African communities

The first retrospective in France devoted to renowned South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi has opened in Paris. The exhibition brings together more than 200 works documenting the life of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual communities.

Radio France Internationale

Israeli diplomat removed from African Union summit

A bloc official says the envoy was removed because she was not accredited to attend the event in Ethiopia.

Al Jazeera

Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa's deputy president: what he brings to the table

South Africa is set to have a new deputy president in Paul Shipokosa Mashatile, the deputy president of the governing African National Congress (ANC). He’ll replace the incumbent, David Mabuza, who announced he would step down.

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The Times of India

Tahlia McGrath, Ashleigh Gardner power Australia into Women's T20 World Cup semis

NEW DELHI: Tahlia McGrath and Ashleigh Gardner played aggressive knocks in chase of 125 to power defending champions Australia to a comfortable six-wicket win over South Africa in the Women's T20 World Cup match in Gqeberha on Saturday.

The National (Scotland)

Warriors plotting a hit-and-run mission to South Africa

FROM wet and windy Scotstoun on Friday night to sunny Ellis Park in Johannesburg next Saturday, Glasgow Warriors will experience the two extremes of…

AAP

McGrath powers Australia into T20 World Cup semis

Tahlia McGrath showed why she's the world's top T20 batter with a 29-ball fifty as Australia made light work of South Africa to roar into the World Cup semis.

ABC News

T20 World Cup: Australia seals spot in semi-finals with six-wicket win over South Africa in Gqeberha

Defending champions Australia make it four wins from four in the group stage to qualify for the Women's T20 World Cup semi-finals, with a victory over South Africa, highlighted by a brilliant half-century from Tahlia McGrath.

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Cowabunga! Horn reveals herbal mixtures used by medieval healers in South Africa

A cow horn believed to be the oldest known example of a medicine container in southern Africa has been discovered in a South African cave. It sheds light on the herbal remedies used by indigenous healers more than 500 years ago, including one known as the "cancer bush".

Reuters

Senior Israeli diplomat ejected from AU summit as row escalates

A senior Israeli diplomat on Saturday was removed from the African Union's annual summit in Ethiopia, as a dispute over Israel's accreditation to the bloc escalated.

The Conversation

Fences: August Wilson's play powerfully affirms the value and struggles of black life

Fences, a creative examination of a black family’s experience, is one of the most frequently performed plays in the US. It was first developed in 1983 by celebrated African American dramatist August Wilson, becoming a successful Broadway production in 1987.

ABC News

Australia coach Shelley Nitschke welcomes arrival of Women's Premier League

While the WPL auction was a distraction during the T20 World Cup in South Africa, Australia coach Shelley Nitschke describes the new tournament as an important step in the growth of women's cricket.

The Independent UK

India welcomes 12 cheetahs from South Africa

India has welcomed 12 cheetahs from South Africa that will join eight others it received from Namibia last year as part of an ambitious drive to reintroduce the big cats in the country after 70 years

The Times of India

IAF plane carrying 12 cheetahs from South Africa arrives in Gwalior

Twelve cheetahs from South Africa arrive at Kuno National Park

The Times of India

IAF plane carrying 12 cheetahs from South Africa arrives in Kuno National Park in MP

Twelve cheetahs from South Africa arrives at Kuno National Park

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