THE Camel White Water Challenge will be held in South Africa this year and not in Uganda, it was announced on Wednesday. The Ugandan government refused permission over concerns that the event’s publicity would create a lobby against a proposed dam development, organiser Tony Hansen said. Special permission was granted by the National Parks Board to hold the 1999 event in the Augrabies Gorge section of the Orange River in the Northern Cape where 18 rafting nations will compete. The competition was held in Costa Rica last year and will be hosted on the Futaleufu River in Chile in 2000.