This disgusting practice has a name ... and a target group in South Africa

Bennie Roux will embark on a 220km long ultra marathon next Tuesday in South Africa, less than a week after he ran his epic 240 mile Moab ultra marathon in the US.

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Bennie Roux has completed over ten Comrades Marathons and the measly 89km race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban was not long enough for him - so he took up running ultra marathons - his latest the 240 mile (390km) Moab trail race in Utah (USA). Just days ago he came 3rd in this race which lasted over three days.

There is no doubt that the drought in southern Africa is extremely bad ... BUT the western edge of Victoria Falls (the "devil's cauldron") will still be flowing.

Livestream Saturday 8am Johannesburg time. Bennie has just completed the 244-mile trail race, the longest in the US, in the arid Moab, Utah.

The son of ANC secretary-general and former Free State premier Ace Magashule, Tshepiso, has been forcefully removed from one of the houses belonging to the controversial Gupta family in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, according to a report.

The Israeli team meeting with farmers will be coming back again after a very successful visit.

Video footage on a sheep farm reflects the awful reality of the drought in a country where the government only financially assists one sector of the farming community.

Afrikaans but preferably Dutch-speaking South Africans now have the opportunity of being recruited into the Dutch defence force and so gaining residency there.