John Daly travels far south for the first time — but this is no backpack trek — this is a Branston safari....

Game rangers have killed three poachers in the past week during an escalation of armed incursions into South Africa’s flagship wildlife reserve, where hundreds of rhinos have been killed for their horns this year.

FRANCIS MACOMBER, in Hemingway’s celebrated story, is on safari in Africa. A male lion has been roaring during the night, keeping the wealthy American awake in his tent. The animal is tracked next day.

A severely injured white rhino that had been wandering a national park for days after having its horn hacked off and a bullet lodged in its brain was put down by park rangers on Tuesday, according to South African media outlet News24.

A teacher who suffered a serious leg injury when an elephant tore through her car in South Africa has told how she desperately tried to drive away.

A British teacher was stabbed in the leg by the elephant, which was subsequently shot by park rangers.

And THIS is why you don't mess with a water buffalo. Even if you're a lion.

CLASSY CAMPING FOR OKTOBERFEST

Large seizures of elephant tusks have made this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by poachers, experts said today.

BRITISH businessman Shrien Dewani arranged his wife’s murder during their honeymoon in South Africa after confessing he needed to “find a way out of” his marriage.

A MAN was being questioned by detectives investigating the murder of a newlywed on her honeymoon in South Africa, police said.

The husband of a newlywed murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa said he pleaded with armed carjackers not to separate him from his wife.

LESS than a month after fearing for his European Tour future, Spaniard Pablo Martin charged into a four-stroke lead at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa yesterday.

Less than a month after fearing for his European Tour future, Spaniard Pablo Martin charged into a four-stroke halfway lead at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa today.

The South African environment minister was due today to announce whether the country will resume culling elephants in a bid to slow the rampant population growth of the mighty beast.

I HAVE just received a lovely book - Recipes from an African Kitchen, by Josie Stow and Ian Baldwin - from former Ballymaloe student Jane Oxborrow.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON and Darren Clarke are among the 14-strong field intent on denting Tiger Woods’s record in his Target World Challenge commencing Thursday at the Sherwood Country Club near Los Angeles.

The South African government is considering whether to resume culling of elephants in the Kruger National Park to try to combat the spiralling population of the mighty mammals.

LEON PAPPAS, 73, oldest member and former head pro at the Hans Merensky Estate Golf Course in South Africa, recalls the time they had to close the course for the day.

A BRITISH woman was repeatedly raped by a gang of four men during a 14-hour ordeal after she was kidnapped while on holiday in South Africa, police said yesterday.

The death toll from a fire in South Africa’s Kruger National Park has risen to 23 after three people died with severe burns overnight.

Helicopters circled over South Africa’s Kruger National park today, dropping water on a brush fire, as the death toll rose to 22.

Seventeen people have died in a fire at South Africa’s most popular safari area, the Kruger National Park.

A bus driver who caused the deaths of 27 Britons in a South African coach crash is appearing in court for sentencing.