South Africa’s cricket team just made history: how the ‘chokers’ became world champions
Category: Sports
Mogammad Sharhidd Taliep, Cape Peninsula University of Technology When Kyle Verreynne hit the winning runs at the “home of cricket” (Lord’s Cricket Ground in London) on 14 June, South Africa erupted in celebration. The Proteas had just claimed their first major cricket cup in history. And nothing less than the International Cricket Council World Test Championship at that, the premier international competition for five-day (test) cricket that’s played over two years. Branded as
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Caryn Dolley is an award-winning journalist and author based in Cape Town. For close to two decades she has extensively covered organised crime in the country. Through her work, she’s exposed how South Africa fits into global criminal networks, how gangsters appear to have infiltrated aspects of private security, and how politics, rogue intelligence, and state corruption seem to intertwine. Caryn’s latest work on The Daily Maverick covers what late cop André Lincoln’s funeral may
The fatal shooting of three people in Lentegeur, including an e-hailing driver, has sparked outrage among community leaders, who are demanding swift justice and decisive action against gang violence on the Cape Flats. The victims were gunned down at approximately 11:10 on Tuesday at the intersection of Merrydale Avenue and Highlands Drive. READ MORE: Gang shooting in Lentegeur claims three lives Michael Jacobs, chairperson of the Lentegeur Community Police Forum
