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South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada (C) celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Bangladesh’s Nayeem Hasan during the fourth day of the first Test cricket match between Bangladesh and South Africa at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on October 24, 2024. (Photo by TANVIN TAMIM / AFP)

South Africa cruise to seven-wicket win in Bangladesh Test

Bangladesh lost their last three wickets for just 24 runs inside half an hour

RG Snyman during the 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between France and South Africa at the Stade de France in Paris, France. (Photo By Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

RG Snyman returns for Springboks’ November internationals

The Springboks face Scotland on November 10, England six days later, and Wales on November 23

Rabada breaks record as South Africa takes lead against Bangladesh in first Test

Seamers Rabada, Mulder and left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj took three wickets apiece for South Africa

Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Picture: Getty Images

South Korea’s Han sells one million books after Nobel win

Han’s win has created a sensation in South Korea, with the websites of major bookstores and publishing houses crashing

A Just Stop Oil activist is arrested after Van Gogh’s sunflowers had soup thrown on it at the National Portrait Gallery on October 14, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Martin Pope/Getty Images)

UK’s National Gallery bans liquids after activist art attacks

Last week, two people were arrested after pasting a photo of a bloodied mother and child in Gaza over a Picasso painting

Siya Kolisi lifts the trophy as he celebrates with his teammates after they won the Rugby Championship following their match between South Africa and Argentina at Mbombela Stadium in Mbombela on September 28, 2024. (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP)

Springboks dominate Argentina 48-7 to win Rugby Championship

Eben Etzebeth is now the most-capped Springbok, with 128 Test appearances

Margaret Maritz was born in 1906. (AFP)

Western Cape woman celebrates 118th birthday

Margaret Maritz had a small party at her care home in Touws River

Damaged cars in the Dahieh district of southern Beirut, Lebanon, on September 21, 2024, after an Israeli strike. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel hits Beirut again in second day of strikes

Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted last October

A sign that reads “Justice for Juan Lopez. They killed Juan, not his fight. Juan Lopez lives” is seen next to his coffin during his wake in Tocoa, Colon Department, Honduras, on September 15, 2024. (Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Environmental activist who feared for his life killed in Honduras

Juan Lopez campaigned against open-pit mining in a rain forest reserve

European Commissioner fo Competition  Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference on the launch of an antitrust probe against Google over online ads at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on June 14, 2023. The European Commission said Google “abused its dominant positions” in the online ad market and recommended the US company sell part of its ad services to ensure fair competition. (Photo by John THYS / AFP)

Second major antitrust trial over Google digital advertising dominance starts in US

Government lawyers will claim Google has used its financial power to acquire potential rivals and corner the ad tech market

Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia wins the Men’s Marathon on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Esplanade Des Invalides on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Agency/Getty Images)

Ethiopia’s Tola wins Olympic men’s marathon, Kipchoge withdraws

The route included a 436m climb and 438m descent. The maximum gradient on the route was 13.5 percent

Banks, restaurants, airlines, the media and more were hit by the outage. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Global IT outage caused by antivirus update disrupts airlines, banks, media and more

An IT update from anti-virus company Crowdstrike led to the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ affecting million of computers worldwide that run Windows software

President Paul Kagame. (Photo by Julien Bacot/NBAE via Getty Images)

Rwanda’s Kagame wins fourth term with 99 percent of vote

With 65 percent of the population aged under 30, Kagame is the only leader most Rwandans have ever known

Informal settlements have been particularly badly affected by the latest storms and flooding. (File photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Flooding, damage as storms batter Cape Town

Informal settlements around the city, and the township of Khayelitsha, have been severely affected

In this video grab taken on November 24, 2018 villagers try to capture a large python in Padang Pariaman, in West Sumatra. The group was looking to catch some eels, but they got an eight-metre (26 foot) long python instead. (Photo by Ronal EFENDI COTO / AFP)

Woman swallowed whole by python in Indonesia

This was the second python killing in the province in a month

Rassie Erasmus looks on during the Summer Rugby International match between South Africa and Wales at Twickenham Stadium on June 22, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Rassie Erasmus’ fly-half dilemma: Pollard versus Libbok for South Africa test against Ireland

Will the coach choose the master goal-kicker or ball-in-hand magician?

Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj and David Miller of South Africa cut dejected figures following the ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup West Indies & USA 2024 final match between South Africa and India at Kensington Oval on June 29, 2024 in Bridgetown, Barbados. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

South Africa ‘gutted’ after T20 final loss to India

Captain Aiden Markram said there was an “extreme hunger” for victory in the team

Kenya’s President William Ruto. (Photo by Kristy Sparow/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

Kenya’s Ruto pulls finance bill after protest deaths

Many citizens are angry with the government as they grapple with a rising cost of living

An organisation says the devices reduce children’s ability to concentrate and learn effectively. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Hamstrung by lack of connectivity

In Zimbabwe, cellphone penetration is over 97% but the government has conceded that connectivity is difficult in rural areas

South Africa thrash Afghanistan to reach T20 World Cup final

Fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje maintained the relentless pressure with two wickets apiece at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad