Christian was a lion originally purchased by Australians John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke from Harrods department store of London, England in 1969 and ultimately reintroduced to the African wild by conservationist George Adamson. One year after George Adamson released Christian to the wild, his former owners decided to go looking for him to see whether Christian would remember them. He did, and with him were two lionesses who accepted the men as well.

Lots drama unfolded at the Nicholson Inquiry earlier this week. Former Cricket South Africa (CSA) president Norman Arendse testimony can be credited with creating the drama. He claimed that a “Frankenstein rganization” had emerged under CEO Gerald Majola, during his submission to the Nicholson Inquiry on Tuesday.

A scientific article published yesterday by South African and Swedish researchers suggests that the dancing dung beetles are in fact taking detailed compass readings from the sun and the heavens, to enable them to roll their dung out of reach of rival beetles.

The research paper, titled “The Dung Beetle Dance”, was published online in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, following a series of recent experiments at Stonehenge farm in Limpopo.
The researchers, including Prof Marcus Byrne of the Wits University school of animal, plant and environmental sciences, says that dung-eating beetles fashion balls of fresh animal faeces and then roll them away to underground pantries.

New research released in the UK on Monday shows the British government’s strategy of measuring and explicitly promoting happiness over other objectives is counter-productive and a waste of money.
The report, “…and the Pursuit of Happiness: Wellbeing and the Role of Government”, examines the flaws in attempts to measure happiness.

AB de Villiers could not have wished for a better start to his captaincy of South Africa’s limited-overs team as the Proteas secured a one-day series win by beating Sri Lanka in the third Sunfoil one-day international (ODI) in Bloemfontein.
De Villiers’s men now hold an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series - making the two remaining fixtures, in Kimberley on Friday and the Wanderers in Johannesburg, of little more than academic value.
The Proteas held on to claim a narrow four-run win in Bloemfontein on the Duckworth/Lewis method but it would be churlish and unfair to say that the home team would have gone on to win the game if their innings had gone the full 50 overs instead of the 34 that were bowled before rain intervened.

Whenever we talk about road deaths, drunken driving etc, inevitably the calls and SMS’es come in to say that in Australia, the laws are so tight and law enforcement so good, that residents there daren’t break the law because they know they will be caught.

We speak now to an actual Australian, Pete Budd, who can tell us what the driving experience in Australia is like, compared to here in SA.
What are the differences between law enforcement there versus here? Is the attitude of drivers different, has it always been that way, that Australians obey the road rules or did it take serious intervention to get to a point where people no longer break the road rules?

Marianne Thamm
Writer, Journalist

The Correctional Services Department on Tuesday said it was highly unlikely it would consider parole applications for two men who brutally attacked a Port Elizabeth woman 17 years ago.
Theuns Kruger and Frans du Toit were both given life sentences for the attempted murder and rape of Alison Botha in 1994.
Botha survived the ordeal and went on to become a renowned motivational speaker. Marianne Thamm, who helped Alison write her book, says she hopes the men never get out of prison.