A South African court postponed judgment on the citizenship dispute of beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina. Adetshina might be deported. She maintained that she was a native of South Africa. In economic updates, the South African rand gained significant ground since the outbreak of the Iran war.
Across the zone, Botswana stopped its citizens from being recruited into the Russian military at airports in Botswana, South Africa, and Ethiopia. In ecological reporting, Yale E360 shared findings showing that increasing carbon emissions boosts the growth of grasses on the African savanna.