Hundreds of fish have died in the Olifants River about 15km from Olifants camp in the Kruger National Park (KNP) as the river dries up. Dr Thomas Gyedu-Ababio, the KNP’s aquatic biodiversity conservation manager, said the fish are believed to have died from oxygen starvation.
The nurse pointed at the long funeral procession coming down the slopes of the Drakensberg. "We are dying," she said. For the past 30 years Me Makaoe had been riding up into the highlands on her Basotho pony, to treat the sick. The villagers trusted her, she had grown up with them, and they wanted her to be the one who tested them for HIV.
Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova was unceremoniously bundled out of the first round of the United States Open tennis championships in New York on Monday by fellow Russian Ekaterina Bychkova. Maria Sharapova wasted no time in taking a step toward another major title as she defeated Greece’s Eleni Daniilidou 6-1, 6-1.
While the health situation for Iraqi children remains perilous, reports from the ministry of health and environment indicate that the past year has witnessed an important drop in rates of disease among children under five, particularly for cholera and diarrhoea.
Former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu is to announce formally on Tuesday that he is challenging Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the leadership of the right-wing Likud party, public radio reported. Netanyahu quit his post as finance minister in protest at the plan to pull settlers out of the Gaza Strip and West Bank enclaves.
Hurricane Katrina smashed into the United States Gulf Coast near New Orleans on Monday, trapping hundreds of people in their flooded homes and leaving a trail of devastation across the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The hurricane killed at least 54 people in Mississippi, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Johannesburg metro police have denied harassing patrons at a Norwood restaurant to show their driver’s licences in a hunt for outstanding traffic fines. The Star reported patrons and owners at a restaurant in Norwood’s Grant Avenue as saying metro police entered and demanded to see the driver’s licences of diners.
The two rival camps in the battle over next-generation DVD standardisation are looking forward to the International Radio and TV Exhibition in Berlin from September 2 to 7. Since consumers will likely decide the winner — Blu-Ray or HD-DVD technology — producers are eager to impress them with devices in the new formats.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Monday it will investigate reports of positive drug tests at the 1999 Tour de France, but stopped short of naming seven-time winner Lance Armstrong. The allegations surfaced last week in the French sports daily newspaper L’Equipe.
With the spectre of relegation already round the corner for Jomo Cosmos, club owner and coach Jomo Sono was clearly only too happy to help the Premier Soccer League (PSL) solve a predicament caused by Fifa’s week of international fixtures. The result is a game against Dynamos at Germiston Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.