Manchester United fans are hoping people power can help beat off an Old Trafford takeover bid from American billionaire Malcolm Glazer. The club’s biggest supporters group, Shareholders United, on Monday launched a campaign to attract 100 000 new members to help fight any proposed attempt to seize control.

If ever Team Shosholoza came close to winning their first America’s Cup match race in the Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 2, it was in Monday’s neck-and-neck race against the super-slick American BMW Oracle racing team — but it was not to be. The South Africans took the lead from the Americans just after the first windward mark.

Field Research Officer, Wild Cheetah Unit, De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre

Farmers often regard cheetahs on their land as vermin, to be shot or poisoned. Kelly is intent on changing their perceptions and behaviour, and she has succeeded in converting many into becoming allies of the De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre.

It has been almost a decade in the making, but South Africa’s national action plan to halt desertification — essentially the degradation of land as a result of climate change, erosion, deforestation and overgrazing — is now ready to be sent to Cabinet for approval. Dry countries such as South Africa are especially prone to desertification.