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Big male tuskers can be beautiful, but frightening.

A stare-off with a wild elephant taught me a valuable lesson

At this point I think, he’ll move away now, once he realises we’re blocking his path. He doesn’t. He keeps on coming.

  • Lee Tulloch

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I learnt to stop looking at life through a viewfinder.

On the trip of a lifetime, I left my camera behind. I don’t regret it

I used to witness the world’s great wildlife destinations through a viewfinder. Then this one changed me.

  • Julietta Jameson
President Donald Trump meets South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office.

Trump’s ‘evidence’ of dead white farmers is from Congo – not South Africa

The president also falsely claimed that footage of a rural road in South Africa lined with white crosses showed more than 1000 “burial sites”.

  • Stephanie Burnett and Milan Pavicic
President Donald Trump shows documents as he meets South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Look at Australia’: Trump ambushes South African president over ‘white genocide’

In another extraordinary Oval Office confrontation, the US president showed his South African counterpart a video alleging the state-sanctioned murder of white Afrikaner farmers, and said they were fleeing to countries including the US and Australia.

  • Michael Koziol
The Afrikaner refugees arrived at Dulles International Airport.

Trump grants white South Africans refugee status in the US

The group of about 50 arrived in the US as refugees, a humanitarian designation meant for those fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide.

  • Teo Armus and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux
The renovated Soetmelksvlei historical farm.

I hate dung and donkeys. Then I discovered the world’s best farm visit

A 330-year-old farm in Cape Town’s winelands has become South Africa’s latest tourist attraction, and it’s brilliant.

  • Brian Johnston
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The hills were alive with the sound of negligence

Leaving listeners in a radio daze.

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When bobbies were pith-perfect

And New England foxes were left seeing red.

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A more gratifying senior moment

After all, discounts are wasted on the young.

Clive Lloyd and Bob Hawke in 1985.

Hawke, Packer and ‘Supercat’: Cricket’s secret Kirribilli meeting and the end of apartheid

Forty years after the rebel tours of South Africa, we reveal one of the great sliding doors moments in Australian cricket.

  • Daniel Brettig

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