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"Connor passed away on Monday following a medical event and rugby's collective focus at this time is on supporting his family," New Zealand Rugby said in a statement.

The number of Mpox cases in South Africa has risen to seven with the latest case confirmed at a private hospital in Cape Town. Three provinces are now affected by the M-pox outbreak with two deaths recorded in Gauteng and Kwazulu Natal respectively.

Two teenagers were gunned down and another three injured following a shooting incident at a tavern in Walmer on Sunday. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says at about 11 pm, five armed men in balaclavas entered the tavern and started shooting at patrons.

The MK said it would join a newly formed parliamentary grouping that includes several mostly leftist opposition parties represented in parliament. Called the "Progressive Caucus" it is currently led by the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which won 39 seats in the new parliament.

The Washington Post, which reported the story, called it one of the country's most sweeping acts of clemency involving a drug that is now in broad recreational use and noted the action is aimed at addressing social and economic injustice disproportionately impacting Black people.

Breeding panda cubs is a notoriously difficult task for the low-sexed creatures and hopes of a pregnancy in Adelaide, including through the use of artificial insemination, have been repeatedly dashed.

The Former Chairperson for South African Airways Dudu Myeni has died. This was confirmed by the Jacob Zuma Foundation of which Myeni was the chairperson.

An attempted cash-in-transit robbery took place early this morning in Walmer in Gqeberha.

Police in Gauteng arrested more than 40 suspected illegal immigrants at a house in Sandton where counterfeit SIM cards are manufactured. Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo says police pounced on the house where they found all the suspects aged between 17 and 36 years.