The best argument for including Gary Kirsten in the cricket World Cup squad was made, pretty much unanswerably, by the left-hander himself in Paarl in the fourth one-day international against Pakistan. For the second-best argument you need only to look at his brother Peter. Like Gary, the older Kirsten seemed to have been cast aside […]

For South African cricket, 2002 hardly had the most auspicious starts. The New Year Test against Australia in Sydney was played against a backdrop of bitter squabbling after UCB president Percy Sonn intervened to force the selection of Justin Ontong.

Pan Africanist Congress bigwigs this week decided to limit the number of candidates for its presidency to forestall perceptions of division within the party — but neglected to inform potential candidates, including Stanley Mogoba, the president.

When Lawali Inchitara had stolen nine bicycles and sold six of them, he wrote to the governor of Zamfara state in northern Nigeria and demanded that his hand be amputated. The Islamic scholar in Inchitara’s jail had explained how this would guarantee forgiveness from Allah.

A Swiss town which introduced rules barring asylum seekers from some public areas, including schools and sports grounds, has been forced by public uproar and the danger of legal proceedings to draw back. Realising that its scheme may contravene the constitution and be vulernable to legal challenge, the town council of Meilen, near Zurich, in […]