Alexandra is one of the most impoverished areas in South Africa ... ground for rats. The local council has attempted to fight the infestation by setting rat traps throughout the township, but ...

REUTERS Giant rats as big as cats have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's run-down townships ... An infant girl was killed in Soweto township near Johannesburg ...

Giant rats as big as cats have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's squalid townships ... another girl was killed in Soweto township near Johannesburg the same day.

Authorities in Alexandria township in South Africa have come up with a novel idea to cope with an overpopulation of rats in the area – award residents with a free mobile phone for every sixty ...

In fact, township cats have had to confine themselves to hunting birds and eating whatever leftovers they get from their owners. I mentioned this rat invasion ... by and about Africa - aggregating ...

not the rats," she says. Mayoral committee member for health Benedicta van Minnen said the City was aware of the problem in Philippi and parts of the township had been baited to catch the rodents.

He can be certain only that the rats which crawled into his tin ... along the banks of the stinking Jukskei river in South Africa's Alexandra township, a short distance from Johannesburg's most ...