A tiger which was being kept as a pet in South Africa has escaped from the back of a truck and is running loose.
A search is on to find the animal, called Panjo, after it escaped on the trip between Johannesburg, its home, and Springs, where it was being taken to a vet clinic for a check-up.
The authorities urged people to stay away from the animal.
But its owner said was it was used to humans and told anyone who came across Panjo to treat it "like a dog".
Owner Rose Fernandes told local radio that all people had to do was pick up a stick and say "No" in a loud voice.
Brenda Santon, national wildlife manager for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), said SPCA teams were working to locate the escaped tiger and warned people not approach it.
"We believe it is wrong to keep tigers as pets. The animal must be left to live in the jungle. They remain dangerous," she said.
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The body of Manute Bol was in an 8-foot-long, specially built casket in the vast splendor of the ornate Washington National Cathedral. There couldn't have been a more appropriate setting for a man who seemed larger than life in so many ways.
The 7-foot-7 former NBA center who worked diligently to improve conditions in his native Sudan was remembered as a shot-blocker to be feared and a humanitarian to be loved at a funeral service Tuesday.
"Wow. That guy is tall. He's a giant," said former NBA guard and league vice president of player development Rory Sparrow, reciting his first impressions upon meeting Bol. "And little did I know how true that statement was. Because not only was he an intimidating force on the court, someone to be reckoned with in the game ... but he was also a giant off the court.
I really love the concept of continental pan Africanism. According to MSN Encarta, continental pan Africanism advocates the unity of states and peoples of Africa. The initial proponents of this theory proposed a United States of Africa, and the ever-present civil conflicts and waste of natural resources should point all the more to the wisdom of this proposition. To read the minds of such great African philosophers and proponents of continental pan Africanism like Jomo Kenyata, Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Steve Biko, Haile Selasie, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Kenneth Kaunda and Banda Hastings Kamuzu is enlightening, all the more so when you consider the cumulative wealth of the continent compared to the overall suffering. Imagine, as Nelson Mandela famously said; … (the) dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent, (The) dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses, (the) dream of an Africa, which is in peace with itself.
A tiger which was being kept as a pet in South Africa has escaped from the back of a truck and is running loose.
I really love the concept of continental pan Africanism. According to MSN Encarta, continental pan Africanism advocates the unity of states and peoples of Africa. The initial proponents of this theory proposed a United States of Africa, and the ever-present civil conflicts and waste of natural resources should point all the more to the wisdom of this proposition. To read the minds of such great African philosophers and proponents of continental pan Africanism like Jomo Kenyata, Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, Steve Biko, Haile Selasie, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Kenneth Kaunda and Banda Hastings Kamuzu is enlightening, all the more so when you consider the cumulative wealth of the continent compared to the overall suffering. Imagine, as Nelson Mandela famously said; … (the) dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent, (The) dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses, (the) dream of an Africa, which is in peace with itself.