Southern Africa: South Africa Safe From Foot And Mouth Disease

31 January 2003

Pretoria — South Africans need not worry about the spread of the deadly foot and mouth disease currently affecting Zimbabwe and Botswana.

This is according to agriculture and land affairs minister Thoko Didiza, who was speaking yesterday at the Johannesburg International Airport, after her arrival from a mission in Zimbabwe.

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