Today on The Midday Report, host Jane Dutton – standing in for Mandy Wiener – unpacks the major stories making headlines.

Robert Francis Prevost, 69, has been named the 267th pope and will take the papal name Leo XIV.

In local news, police in KwaZulu-Natal say they are working to identify individuals who have issued threats of public violence ahead of Saturday’s Nedbank Cup match in Durban.

Meanwhile, South Africa has begun the phased withdrawal of SANDF troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

All this and more.

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