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/ 24 November 2006

AgriSA welcomes probe into land delivery

The investigation into service delivery by the Department of Land Affairs was a welcome development, said AgriSA on Friday. ”AgriSA has been concerned for some time about processes that were delayed in the department and the commission on restitution of land rights,” said Dr Theo de Jager, chairperson of the AgriSA land-affairs committee.

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/ 24 November 2006

India send for help after SA drubbing

India’s cricket authorities on Friday asked chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar to fly to South Africa following the team’s crushing defeat in the second one-day international in Durban. Rahul Dravid’s Indians were widely criticised in the cricket-crazy country following their 157-run defeat on a pacy Durban track on Wednesday.

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/ 24 November 2006

Govt ‘puts Selebi above national interests’

The longer police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi stays in office, the stronger will be the impression that ”with the right friends, one could get away with murder”, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Friday. ”It is in the interests of combating crime in South Africa that Selebi vacates his position,” a party spokesperson said.

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/ 24 November 2006

‘Apathetic attitude’ of pension industry slammed

A ”generally apathetic attitude” characterised the administration of South Africa’s pension funds, according to the Pension Funds Adjudicator. ”That things are no better in other countries, like England, is no reason for the generally apathetic attitude that appears to have taken root here,” the 2005 annual report of the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator, released on Friday, said.

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/ 24 November 2006

Tourists flock to SA for ‘scalpel safaris’

South Africa’s medical-tourism industry has skyrocketed with the number of overseas patients drawn by ”scalpel safari” packages more than doubling in three years, an expert said on Friday. The booming sector now earns about R260-million annually, Martin Kelly, president of the Association for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, told the media.

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/ 24 November 2006

Bosnia mass grave yields 156 Srebrenica victims

Forensic experts exhumed the remains of 156 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave found in an eastern Bosnian village, an official of a commission for missing persons said on Friday. Ninety complete and 66 incomplete bodies were found, Murat Hurtic of the Muslim-Croat federation’s commission for missing persons said.