KOFI ANNAN AND PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI VISIT STERKFONTEIN CAVES WITH THEIR WIVES, 2002-09-01 (photo)

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (2nd R), his wife Nane (R), South African President Thabo Mbeki (2nd L), and his wife Zanele look at some fossils on a visit to the Sterkfontein Caves, some 40 kilometers north of Johanneburg 1 Spetember, 2002. Gauteng province Premier Mbhazima Shilowa hosted Thabo Mbeki as well as Kofi Annan here, at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a site at which some of the most significant fossils, including remains of "Littlefoot", an almost complete hominid skeleton believed to be some 3.3 million years old, have been found of our earliest human ancestors. (man L is unidentified).REUTERS/YOAV LEMMER POOL REUTERS JN/FMS