England sensation Wayne Rooney has been offered a five-year contract at Everton, his club announced on Tuesday. Toffees officials confirmed they have offered the 18-year-old striker the biggest contract in the Premiership club’s history and are awaiting a response from his agent, Paul Stretford.
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A lawyer acting for self-proclaimed victims of apartheid abuses will file papers with a United States court on Tuesday to dismiss a motion before it to throw out their case against a list of multinational companies. US attorney Michael Hausfeld is representing about 32 000 South Africans affiliated to an apartheid debt and reparations campaign.
Seven armed men robbed the Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarket at the Northgate Shopping Centre on Monday morning, West Rand police reported. The men held up 250 staff members at gunpoint for more than two hours. Later, two suspects were shot and injured during a shoot-out with police and seven were arrested.
Iraq’s interim prime minister said on Monday that he will not interfere with an Iraqi tribunal’s right to decide whether Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants should be executed on war crimes charges. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he is willing to abide by whatever the court decides in the trial, which is not expected to begin for months.
Amnesty for Iraqi insurgents
The development of the judiciary and the rule of law must take account of customary and traditional practices, Botswana’s President Festus Mogae said on Monday. Mogae was opening the Southern African Development Community chief justices’ conference on human rights.
The war crimes trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was adjourned on Monday after his ill-health prompted a judicial review of the way the trial is being conducted. Milosevic, who is conducting his own defence, had been expected to deliver a political tirade on Monday as part of his opening statement to the international criminal tribunal in The Hague.
The African Union’s (AU) executive council has given the go-ahead for a common African position on the controversial issue of human cloning to be drawn up. The South African government proposed to the fifth ordinary session of the council that a common African position be presented to the international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings.
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) is set to clamp down on taxpayers who fail to reflect accurately and honestly details relating to the travel section on their tax return forms, the receiver said in a statement on Monday. A Sars spokesperson said some taxpayers have been dishonest when furnishing travel-specific information.
Pakistan has turned to old ally Libya to purchase a fleet of Mirage fighter jets and spare parts, an air force spokesperson said on Monday. ”Libya had a fleet of Mirages, which was grounded for over a decade. We have purchased that fleet at a very reasonable price,” Air Commodore Sarfraz Khan said.