11.   Provincial Affairs minister Dibara Yagabo toured the inundated region by helicopter Monday, and promised the urgent delivery of food, water tanks, medical supplies and tents.

12.   Provincial ministers from British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec and Ontario Premier Mike Harris all opposed the plan.

13.   Rock has invited provincial ministers to a meeting in May to discuss the health care crisis, but offered only vague hints about what he will propose.

14.   The club had two exits, but the young people had access to only one, said Narend Singh, provincial minister for agriculture and environmental affairs.

15.   The contest is likely to be between provincial ministers Gerald Morkel and Peter Marais, both of whom are of mixed race.

16.   Ghani was provincial labour minister in North West Frontier Province before his promotion into the federal cabinet.

17.   Hundreds of additional police and paramilitaries have been pressed into service in Karachi, a bustling port and capital of Sindh province, said provincial home minister Mukhtar Sheikh.

18.   In an unrelated incident, two police officers were injured in a downtown quarter of Srinagar when Moslem rebels attempted to assassinate provincial home minister Ali Mohammed Sagar.

19.   A policeman convicted of the murders of six people Thursday implicated two KwaZulu-Natal provincial ministers in the running of hit squads to kill opponents of the old regime.

20.   A provincial minister in the Eastern Cape was arrested and charged with drunken driving on the weekend, South African police said Sunday.