THE JSE Securities Regulation Code could effectively prevent life assurer Fedsure, pharmaceutical company Adcock Ingram and empowerment investment group Sekunjalo from making another offer for South African Druggists shares until next February. Business Report on Sunday reported that the code will also prevent them from making another bid — acting on their own, as a […]

BELGIAN Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene will arrive 24 hours later than he was expected in South Africa — meaning he will miss a concert of Belgian singer Helmut Lotti in Johannesburg on Sunday. Dehaene was unable to leave Brussels on Saturday evening as scheduled because of a technical problem with the military plane on which […]

A SIMMERING dispute between Namibia and neighbouring Botswana over ownership of an island in the Chobe river which separates the two countries is due to come before the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday. The disputed sovereignty of Kasikili island — called Sedudu in Botswana — has created tension between the two […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Monday 12.30pm. NATIONAL rugby coach Nick Mallett said on Monday he is saddened and disturbed that former Springbok Joel Stransky wants to play for England in this year’s World Cup. The 32-year-old fly-half, who won 22 caps for South Africa, qualifies for England through a grandparent. England coach Clive Woodward […]

THE world’s biggest organisation of journalists on Friday called on Zimbabwe to end its current crackdown on the media and demanded that those responsible for the torture of two reporters are brought to justice. The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists said seven journalists had been detained since the start of this year in a crackdown […]

A RWANDAN court on Thursday condemned two people to death and sentenced five others to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s 1994 genocide, according to legal sources.The court, specialising in crimes committed between April and July 1994, in genocide which left between 500000 and 800000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates dead, handed […]

A British oil worker and his two-and-a-half-year old son were kidnapped Sunday in Nigeria, a few days after a another British oil worker was taken hostage. Martin Westbury, and his son, were seized by three armed youths in Warri in south-east Nigeria, an official working for Westbury’s employer, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell. The official […]

THE South African national netball team leaves this week for a two-week tour of Jamaica and Britain. The Amablomme-blomme will play four international games in their first tour since the Commonwealth Games last year.

THE results of the Dusi Canoe Marathon will be amended after canoeist Wayne Volek, who finished third in the race, was found guilty on Thursday evening of doping in the event. Canoeing South Africa’s executive committee suspended him from competition for two years, as stipulated by the International Canoe Federation rules on doping. Volek was […]

THE New Zealand Rugby Football Union has rejected a proposal for an expanded Super 12 competition which would have included a team from the United States. A preliminary discussion paper about expansion of the successful New Zealand-Australian-South African based contest to include the US did not receive a favourable response from the union, a New […]