African Wildcat (Felis sylvestris caffra)

The Southern African wildcat is one of five subspecies of the wildcat, and is native to southern and south-eastern Africa.
It was formerly considered conspecific with the African or Near Eastern wildcat , but has been recognised as a distinct subspecies on the basis of genetic analysis. Morphological evidence suggests the break between the two African subspecies to occur in the south-east, in the area of Tanzania and Mozambique.

In Afrikaans it is called 'vaalboskat'; in Swahili.. more