FURTHER progress has been made towards starting the trial of two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing, South African presidential envoy Jakes Gerwel said after returning from Tripoli on Thursday. “There is progress every time we go there,” Gerwel said, declining to give further details. “We are expecting a statement from Tripoli sometime and after that I will be prepared to comment,” he said. Gerwel, a senior aide to President Nelson Mandela, has been involved in talks to end the stalemate over the trial of two Libyans accused of involvement in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, Scotland.