Dr Richard Leakey accepts position as director of Kenya Wildlife Service. Promissory notes saga claims two more heads. Kalahari San people object to the forming of the Kalahari Transfrontier Conservation Area. The southern Kalahari San people feel they were not consulted in the negotiations leading to the forming of the Kalahari Transfrontier Conservation Area between South African and Botswana. Urgent action needed for Africa's medicinal wildlife resources.
Top student conquers America.
The top student of the 1997 Honours group in wildlife management from the University of Pretoria, has just returned from a successful visit to Texas. Mpumalanga finance MEC resigns unexpectedly. Mpumalanga's finance MEC, Jacques Modipane, unexpectedly announced his immediate resignation from the provincial executive during a hastily convened staff meeting at the department's head office in Nelspruit on Thursday. Bovine TB in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi park. Bovine tuberculosis is present in lion and buffalo populations in the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park administered by the KZN Nature Conservation Service.