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Article: Top bird man grounded; As Mark Anderson receives international acclaim for saving the lesser flamingo, he is suspended from his job.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2008
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BYLINE: Leon Marshall
What a bizarre turn! There Mark Anderson is getting international acclaim for his work to save the lesser flamingo and, next moment, he, and two of his colleagues, get suspended from his Northern Cape provincial government job by Patience Mokhali, the deputy director-general of the province's department of tourism, environment and conservation, for what appears to be much the same reason.
A further ironic twist is that the action taken by Mokhali happened on the day that Anderson was going to be announced as the new executive director of BirdLife South Africa, which serves further to underscore the esteem in which he is held as a ...