<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=cwc_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/300732/Icon_CWC.gif" align=left border=0></a>Three years ago, during an evening celebrating the West Indies’ 75th anniversary as a Test-playing team, Viv Richards took to the stage of Birmingham’s Symphony Hall to receive an award as one of the Caribbean’s top five players of all time. At the crease in the 70s and 80s, Richards always cut a distinctive figure.
Modern humans were living in Northern Africa far earlier than previously thought, according to scientists. A new analysis of a 160 000-year-old fossilised jawbone from Morocco shows that the homo sapiens in the area had started having long childhoods, one of the hallmarks of humans living today.
A newly discovered letter by Adolf Hitler’s architect and armaments minister Albert Speer offers proof that he knew about the plans to exterminate the Jews. Writing in 1971 to Hélène Jeanty, the widow of a Belgian resistance leader, Speer admitted that he had been at a conference where Heinrich Himmler had unveiled plans to exterminate the Jews.
The English Football Association announced on Monday that it would not be taking any action against Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho after he called referee Mike Riley a ”son of a whore”. Television cameras picked up Mourinho telling Riley he was a ”filho da puta” during an altercation at half-time in Chelsea’s 3-3 draw with Tottenham in the FA Cup quarterfinal on Sunday.
It might be classified by the South African Football Association as a training outing and will therefore not go into the Fifa record books as an official international, but Swaziland team manager Polycarp Dlamini says Bafana Bafana should not expect a romp in the park at Ellis Park on Tuesday night.
A 23-year-old Indian businessman on Tuesday said he would sell one of his kidneys to anyone who needed a transplant in order to afford to travel to the Cricket World Cup. Tarun Sharma even repeated threats made to several national newspapers to kill himself if he did not find takers for one of his two kidneys.
More than six years after terrorists bombed the USS Cole in Yemen, the families of the 17 sailors killed in the blast are heading to court to try to prove the attack could not have happened without Sudan’s help. The families’ lawsuit against Sudan’s government was to go to trial on Tuesday in a United States district court in Norfolk.
Cape Town’s mayor says vigilance will be needed to sustain democracy in South Africa after bruising battles with the African National Congress in her first year leading the sole bastion of opposition to the ruling party. "So far, we have passed the test," Helen Zille said in an interview with the media ahead of the March 15 anniversary of her installation as mayor.
South Africa’s new low-cost domestic airline Mango has done better than expected, the airline said on Tuesday. The airline, operated as a subsidiary of South African Airways, has carried more than 300 000 passengers since it started operating four months ago and has sold more than 600 000 tickets.
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Australian and South African squads landed on St Kitts late on Monday ahead of practice sessions on Tuesday to analyse either injured or out-of-form players before their opening Cricket World Cup matches. Australian allrounder Andrew Symonds will increase the intensity of his training, having recently undergone biceps surgery.