A specialist M. bovis Conference for those interested in wildlife TB
9 - 12 September 2012 Kruger National Park, South Africa
This conference will bring together in the heart of the world famous Kruger National Park researchers, conservationists and policy makers interested in and concerned with wildlife tuberculosis throughout the world. This will be an exciting midterm event supported by the initiators of the series of International Mycobacterium bovis conferences
Watch the space!
We are currently in the process of finalising the special conference issue of the IWTC in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.
Travel Information
When booking your flight to South Africa, please ensure to inform your travel agent to book your flight all the way to Nelspruit Kruger/Mpumalanga International Airport. Also keep in mind that the airport is two hours’ drive away from Skukuza and the latest entry to the Kruger National Park is at 6 pm. Therefore flights arriving later than 15:30 will not permit same day arrival in Skukuza .
Shuttle services are available from Nelspruit Kruger International Airport to Skukuza Camp in the Kruger National Park. More details will be posted closer to the event.
Malaria
Malaria is endemic in the Lowveld of Mpumalanga, including the Kruger Park and precautions in the form of malaria prophylactics need to be taken. Please consult your physician before travelling to South Africa.
Additional information on the Kruger National Park including facilities and activities is available at www.sanparks.org.
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TuksGolf Training Centre officially opened at the University of Pretoria - 17/05/2013
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The University of Pretoria prides itself on its publicly recognised achievements pertaining to its various sporting fraternities. These achievements can be attributed to the University’s sporting facilities, which are of the highest quality among South African universities. To add to its quality achievements, the University of Pretoria, through TuksSport and the High Performance Centre (hpc), has now officially opened a golf training centre.
South African human rights law professor, Christof Heyns, will submit a widely anticipated report on Lethal Autonomous Robots (LARs) to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on 29 May 2013.
Prof Heyns, from the University of Pretoria (UP), was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions in 2010. During last year, he conducted worldwide research on the question whether states should be allowed to use LARs - weapons that, once deployed, can use lethal force without further human intervention - during war, or peace.
The African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership (ALCRL) recently co-hosted a roundtable aimed at establishing a continental leadership transformation programme.
Judges from five African countries (Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda) joined participants from 20 other African countries for a course on socio-economic rights, presented by the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria from 6 to 10 May 2013.
Speaking on TuksFM’s Bang Bang Breakfast Show, the University of Pretoria’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, announced that the second Woolly Winter Campaign will be launched earlier in a bid to make it ‘bigger and better’ than the previous year’s effort.
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