South Africa's cabinet said on Thursday that police were investigating allegations that State Security Minister David Mahlobo was involved in a rhino-poaching syndicate. The allegations against the minister emerged in an Al Jazeera documentary this week. "Cabinet noted the allegations in an Al Jazeera documentary against the Minister of State Security, David Mahlobo, and noted that the South African police services are investigating these allegations," the cabinet said in a statement. Home to around 80 per cent of the global rhino population, the country is at the epicentre of a poaching crisis. Read: South Africa lost 1,215 rhinos to poachers in 2014, moves 100 outside country to fight crisisAlso read: A species fate, $2 billion at stake as South Africa mulls rhino horn trade

Source: The Star November 17, 2016 10:04 UTC