ALFRED LIBOMBO, Maputo | Monday 1.00pm. A PILOT binational agreement to promote the free movement of people and goods between Mozambique and South Africa has become bogged down in bureaucratic red tape and budget cuts, Mozambique’s national roads director, Lucas Nhamizinga, said on Monday. Confirming that the 1997 agreement has still not been implemented, Nhamizinga […]

KING Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain arrived in Cape Town late on Sunday at the start of a four-day official visit to South Africa. The royal couple were met at Cape Town airport by Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo and Western Cape provincial premier Gerald Morkel. They are are accompanied by Spanish Foreign Minister […]

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 […]

ALGERIAN international midfielder Moussa Saib is one of three overseas players UK soccer club Tottenham Hotspur have put on the transfer list in a bid to trim their wage bill after recent buys. Saib, a 2,3-million buy in February last year, has made only five substitute appearances this season. He joins Portugal’s diminutive Jose Dominguez […]

AN injured rugby player is set to make South African legal history by suing his provincial union under the provisions of the Labour Relations Act after his contract was suspended when he disclosed an injury. Centre Kosie van Vuuren’s contract was suspended after he informed the Mpumalanga Rugby Union his shoulder was injured, the Sunday […]

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 […]