The community survey carried out in February yielded a 95,3% response, which is the highest of any survey conducted by Statistics South Africa, deputy director general Kefiloe Masiteng said on Tuesday. Data collected from the 274 344 homes surveyed around the country will now be processed in time for the results to be released at the end of this year.
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.
<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.
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.
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.
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.
A British journalist was on Monday snatched from his car by masked men in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian police. The gunmen are believed to have followed Alan Johnston, the BBC’s Gaza correspondent, from his office to his apartment in Gaza City before kidnapping him.
Government prosecutors on Tuesday demanded two years in jail for the editor of Playboy Indonesia magazine for violating anti-indecency laws by publishing ”porn” pictures in the magazine. Chief prosecutor Resni Muchtar told the court that the magazine editor Erwin Arnada ”damaged the nation’s morality”.