LEKA, the flamboyant exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, was granted R15000 bail on Monday after being arrested on arms charges. Leka was arrested with three other men at his Johannesburg home on February 5 after police found a large quantity of firearms, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and rocket launchers. Transferred from his jail cell to […]

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 […]

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 […]

BROTHERS Alex (37) and Elijah Ngirazi (23) on Friday admitted in a Zimbabwean court to murdering William Player, a great grandson of the man who founded the John Player tobacco dynasty. His body was found on Thursday, three weeks after he disappeared from his home outside the capital.”We have not positively identified him, but there […]

A MAN who covered his face with a farmer’s wife’s panties while robbing the family at gunpoint was sentenced to 10 years in jail in the Nelspruit regional court on Friday. Nkosinathi Sibiya (19) and an accomplice, who was shot dead during his arrest, broke into a farmhouse in Malelane last April while the family […]

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 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 […]

SOUTH Africa’s top 64 under-19 rugby players will vie this week for places in the 26-man squad to play in the IRB/Fira Junior World Championship in Wales between March 26 and April 4. The final squad will be announced on February 22. After warm-up games in March, the team will face first-round opponents Uruguay on […]