Conservation authorities at the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park have decided to shoot a huge old crocodile that attacked and killed a fisherman this week, KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife said on Wednesday. But resident Petrus Viviers said he was surprised that Elder had been attacked. He said residents are likely to object to the plans to shoot the killer crocodile.
”We are going to keep on until we get one of those buggers,” says Darrell James Roodt, director of South Africa’s Oscar-nominated film Yesterday. Roodt, producers Anant Singh and Helena Spring, and actress Leleti Khumalo arrived back in Johannesburg on Wednesday after a nail-biting time in Los Angeles for the Oscar awards ceremony.
Why was a ”tasty morsel” such as a finger left intact by the lions that attacked Nelson Chisale, a pathologist asked in the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Wednesday. The pathologist is testifying in defence of Mark Scott-Crossley, who is accused with Simon Mathebula of murdering Chisale, who was viciously assaulted before being fed to lions.
United Nations peacekeepers in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed as many as 60 militia members in a vicious gun fight that wounded two of the UN troops, a UN spokesperson said on Wednesday. The clash took place on Tuesday, about 30km north of Bunia, the capital of the violent Ituri province, where nine peacekeepers were ambushed and killed last week by militia members.
A new draft fishing policy has failed to consider the plight of thousands of subsistence fishermen, a Western Cape body working with the poor said on Wednesday. ”I think it is a pie in the sky … It’s a myth that small scale fishermen will be given greater access rights,” said Naseedh Jaffer, director of the Masifundise organisation.
The JSE Securities Exchange was weaker just after noon on Wednesday, with heavyweight dual-listed stocks coming under pressure offshore. The losses came despite a softer rand. By 12.17pm, the all share index shed 0,43%. Resources retreated 1,12%, with the gold and platinum mining indices losing 1,26% and 1,03% respectively.
A very different South African team from the one that beat Zimbabwe in the first two Standard Bank limited-overs matches will take the field at St George’s Park on Wednesday for the third and last match. South Africa barely raised a sweat in winning the first two matches by huge margins.
Santos’ battle against relegation received a boost when they beat Black Leopards 2-0 in a Premiership Soccer League match played at Thohoyandou Stadium on Tuesday. Santos led 1-0 at half-time after striker Carlo Scott put the visitors ahead in the 30th minute with an easily taken goal.
Sudan reiterated on Tuesday that those suspected of committing human rights abuses in the troubled western region of Darfur should be tried by its own courts, as a top United States diplomat started a visit to the country. To put on trial ”any Sudanese abroad is out of the question and impossible”, said Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail.
Ajax Cape Town paid the penalty for resting some of their experienced players when they were beaten 3-1 by Supersport United in a Premiership Soccer League match played at Newlands on Tuesday. Ajax opened the score in the sixth minute when Dominique Isaacs made good ground down the right and centred for Thembinkosi Fantini.