SOUTH Africa has offered to help the British government fight the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease there. The provincial agriculture minister of KwaZulu-Natal province said his province, having battled an outbreak of the deadly livestock disease, was sympathetic with the “harrowing and anxious time” Britain was going through. Foot-and-mouth disease broke out in Britain in February, and to date 76 cases have been reported, while nearly 80_000 animals have been slaughtered or have been earmarked for slaughtering. – AFP