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Her mother, Venda, desperately hopes it will alleviate the acute malnutrition the emaciated young girl is suffering from.

Terrified of the gang warfare raging in her neighbourhood, for weeks Venda was too frightened to leave her home to seek treatment for her daughter.

"Giraffes are such endlessly fascinating animals, and this study confirms just how much genetic variation there is even on small geographical scales. This provides a further incentive for conserving all the different lineages of giraffes, whether they be called species, subspecies, populations or whatever," says Yoshan Moodley, a co-author of the study from the University of Venda in South Africa.

Ramaphosa withdrew from politics under Mbeki and set up an investment vehicle called Shanduka - which means "change" in the Venda language.

Ramaphosa withdrew from politics under Mbeki and set up an investment vehicle called Shanduka - which means “change” in the Venda language.